Agriculture · Kenya · Machakos
Sowing Seasons
9yrs9 years at the problem
Training smallholder women farmers in drought-tolerant millet cultivation and direct market access.
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The person behind it
Samuel Okoth
Smallholder farmer and trainer
Our rains changed and nobody told the farmers. So we taught each other.
Impact claims
- Problem
- Rains shifted and planting advice did not
- Intervention
- Farmer-to-farmer training on drought-tolerant planting
- Outcome
- Harvests held steady through a dry season
412Farmers trained · 2026 long rains
With: County agriculture office- Problem
- Maize failures leave women farmers with no income in drought years.
- Intervention
- Seed banks, millet training plots and a shared buyer contract.
- Outcome
- Household income held steady through two consecutive drought seasons.
1,840farmers trained · 2022-2024
EvidenceWith: Machakos Women Farmers Union
Attestations
I planted what they taught and still harvested when my neighbours did not.
Grace Atieno · Beneficiary
I run a neighbouring cooperative. Their seed bank kept forty of our members planting through the drought.
Joseph Kilonzo · Peer founder
Open needs
Seeking volunteers
We need help turning four years of paper harvest records into something we can actually report from.
Helpful: Data entry, spreadsheets, basic Swahili
Write to the people behind this project
Supporters, potential successors and volunteers can send a note here. It reaches them by email, and the two of you can carry on directly.
Stewards
- Grace Mwikali · Founding steward · since 2017
Status: Seeking volunteers