Courtesy of Daily Nation: Years ago, children in primary schools were taught how to grow crops through 4K Clubs. The 4Ks stood for Kuungana, Kufanya, Kusaidia Kenya in Kiswahili, a clarion call to help the country be food secure. ...
The WFP announced that Dr. Matthew Rouse, a researcher with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), is the winner of the 2018 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation....
The Rural Outreach Africa (ROA) in collaboration with the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa-AGRA hosted an open value addition & nutrition exhibition day for farmers, stakeholders & partners to showcase their services & expertise in Vihiga County....
ROA provided farmers groups in Western Kenya with the first African Leafy Vegetables seeds, then taught them how to select the best plants for seed production. Read 'Queen of super vegetables' Courtesy of Daily Nation...
ROA has on 17th December 2013 received 3 soya processing machines from the Kenya Commercial Bank Foundation. The grant comes in handy and is highly appreciated as farmers ROA works with, mostly women and youth have been realizing a good harvest of soya over the past 2...
The project kicked off by holding internal meetings geared towards staff orientation, to reflect and deliberate on the project implementation strategies. This was followed by the field officers reaching out to communities, making partnership links with Provincial Administration, Ministry of Agriculture and other Non-state actors...
ROA was honored to have her visit our Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) project activities in all the 6 clusters where we work. She visited with farmers in their groups and got to meet some of our partners such as Bukura Agricultural Training Institute and...
We are now Rural Outreach Africa (ROP Africa) after recognition of our work by the Kenya government, working with smallholder farmers, especially women. We also have a new LOGO. It was in January and February of 2008, exactly 4 years ago, when post-election violence destroyed...
