NATALY NICOLE (PERU)

I have been working as a youth agent in Puerta Pulache in Peru since December 2021 and I‘m also a student, doing an undergraduate degree in Agriculture Business Management. I did not have any work experience before I started working as a youth agent, so when I got the opportunity to work with the women […]

Case Study: Anthea Ndyamuhaki

In a period of less than two years, my country has been through two lockdowns, each lasting more than two and a half months. Because of this, many families, careers and businesses really suffered. Because of the covid-19 pandemic, I had to go on unpaid leave for two months. Life was difficult – the hotels […]

Case Study: Peter Kibet Busienei

Peter has a 3 acre tea farm at at Sireet-OEP in Nandi Hills, Kenya. As part of the Centre of Excellence Peter has been supported to diversify his income by introducing new crops and establishing them as additional enterprises on his farm. Training: Initially, Peter was supported to access training and information services to establish […]

Case Study : Silvia Lizana Rodriquez

Mrs Silvia is a promoter farmer from our Centre of Excellence in Chirinos, Peru. Her farm demonstrates the whole coffee process and how best practices and innovations such as solar drying can be used in order to improve coffee yield, quality and incomes. As one of around 200 women at the cooperative (about 25% of […]

Case Study : Commercialising Honey

Sireet in Nandi Hills, Kenya, have long been interested in how to help farmers diversify their incomes. During a Producers Direct event, honey cultivation was introduced as a profitable business for small plots of land. To start off this venture, Sireet invested in sending a number of their promoter farmers to a week long training […]

Case Study : Luke Metto

In the west of Kenya, spread across the Nandi Hills, the Sireet Outgrower Empowerment Programme’s (Sireet-OEP) smallholder farmers grow, pick and sell their tea. Although smallholders are not generally recognised as innovators, farmers facing poverty, food insecurity and climate change, among other concerns, are driven to develop innovative solutions to these challenges. In this way, […]