Eight years after quitting her IT job, Linda Kamau stands in a sun-baked field watching solar panels power water pumps.Her solar irrigation service company, Sow Precise Africa, has become a beacon of ...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) solutions play a critical role in responding to untimely shocks, while achieving resilience, sustainably, productivity and farmer disposable incomes. In that context ...

World Bank IDA funding is being used in Kenya to strengthen and expand a system of irrigation channels that allows farmers to make more use of plentiful water from the Nzoia river. Widening the ...

In the scorching sun, Alphonce Abok keeps an eye on his fields of watermelons growing near the banks of the Sound River, one of the major channels feeding into Lake Victoria. "I hope with enough water ...

KENYA: Kenya will have to invest more in irrigation to increase crop yield and reduce endemic food shortages. National Irrigation Board (Nib) Managing Director George Odedeh said irrigation is the ...