LivestockPastoral communities from Kenya and Ethiopia walked a 12-kilometre camel caravan, revived the Qumbi peace ceremony and showed camel dairy products, and ILRI and ICRISAT trained 55 young people in the camel value chain.
LivestockILRI traces the 'nigongee' egg sold at Nairobi bus stops back to the hens, mostly kept by women, and to research on Newcastle vaccination, improved breeds, enriched feed and food safety.
VegetablesA new phase of the Crop Trust's BOLD project, led by the International Potato Center in Kenya, will take 54 breeding lines carrying traits from wild potatoes towards a new variety and build the seed chain to get it to farmers.
LivestockAt ILRI's Mazingira Centre in Nairobi, an Indian researcher screens local legume forages that could cut methane from sheep, while a Mozambican engineer builds a sensor dashboard to measure emission cuts from a manure biogas digester.
CropsWriting before the Global Rice Policy Dialogue in Addis Ababa on 15-16 October, IRRI's Africa director Sofia Tesfazion points to Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya and a new $500 million West Africa Rice Investment Facility.
CropsThe African Plant Nutrition Institute has finished a round of post-harvest dialogues in five Kenyan counties, where more than 200 farmers running their own crop nutrition experiments reviewed the results with scientists, banks, input firms and officials.
EnvironmentAn IFPRI model finds that a very strong El Niño, combined with fuel and fertilizer prices driven up by the war in Iran, could cut Kenya's farm output, raise food prices and push about 756,000 more people into poverty under one scenario.
LivestockReplacing about 12% of a typical Kenyan dairy ration with Calliandra or Leucaena leaves reduced methane by roughly 10 to 13% per unit of feed in laboratory tests, without lowering digestibility; trials in live cows come next.
LivestockILRI researchers argue that forecasts protect pastoralists only when they trigger early support, pointing to index-based livestock insurance and the KAZNET crowdsourcing platform as tools to act before El Niño floods and disease take hold.
AgribusinessKenya's Twiga, once the flagship of African agrifoodtech, has gone into administration, and investors say the sector now needs patient capital and businesses that live on cash flow.
CropsGEOGLAM's Crop Monitor reports rainfall deficits of 100 to 300 mm and record heat across parts of East Africa, and a Kenyan forecast puts western maize yields up to 36 percent below average.
On International Coffee Day, FAO describes how washing stations in Rwanda and a reformed cooperative in Kenya's Baringo County are raising the quality of smallholder coffee and the earnings that come with it.
CropsKenya's agriculture ministry is revising two draft bills, a Seeds and Plant Varieties Bill 2026 and a Plant Genetic Resources Institute Bill 2026, with input from farmers, seed companies, breeders and seven CGIAR centres.
At the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR researchers argued that AI advisory, insurance and speech tools only help women farmers when women shape the design, data and governance behind them.
A CGIAR webinar on feeding growing cities heard that 13.3% of the world's food is lost between harvest and retail, and that clean seed, better varieties, cool boxes for traders and city-level targets are the way to cut losses.
Three Nairobi schools and a farmers' hub are feeding kitchen and market waste to black soldier fly larvae, harvesting protein-rich feed for poultry and pigs and returning the leftover frass to vegetable plots as fertiliser.
Officials from Kisumu, Siaya, Busia and Vihiga counties reviewed fertiliser-recommendation and irrigation-advisory tools with national ministries and researchers, feeding into two policy briefs under the iSPARK project.
Farmed fish made up only 19 per cent of Kenya's 168,424 tonnes of fish output in 2024, but demand is rising in Nyeri, Meru and Tharaka Nithi as unreliable rains push families away from crops and livestock.
The Kenya Meteorological Service Authority, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the AIM4Scale partnership have launched a pilot to turn new rainy-season onset and six-week forecasts into planting advice ahead of the 2026 short rains.
When Bubayi Seed Company shut down in western Kenya, more than 300 contracted bean out-growers lost their buyer overnight, and a public seed producer watched germination rates fall on 10 tonnes it could not sell.
An Alliance analysis of 2018-2022 CHIRPS rainfall data for Kisumu finds May rainfall swinging from under 50 mm to over 350 mm, and points to mid-May 2021, when rain collapsed as maize was at its most water-sensitive stage.
The fourth phase of the West Africa Food System Resilience Program, granted to ICIPE, will scale drought-tolerant rice and maize, digital climate advice and solar irrigation in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.
A commercial farm in Makueni County grows Maasai love grass for Kenya's 18 million cattle, backed by a World Bank programme that has put $40 million behind ten private ventures linked to pastoralism.
