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When a Community Comes Together
Nearly half-way through FAR’s current project with the farmers in Nyahera village in Western Kenya, the latest update from the team highlights the great strides being made by the farmers to self-organize and work together to make a better future for themselves and their families.
The farmers have now formed a CBO (Community Based Organization) legally registered as Nyahera Permaculture Farmers CBO. They meet weekly to discuss progress and planning for their future activities to support each other in their work. One example of this is how the farmers are adapting to flooding, a climate change impact, by growing crops that can withstand high rainfall such as arrow roots and sugar cane.
You can read Paul’s full report (pdf) HERE.
We’re still looking to raise $18,000 before the end of this year, to cover the full cost of completing the project with the farmers in Nyahera Village, and to help Paul Omollo, the Director of Farmers Alliance for Restoration- East Africa, prepare the ground to be ready to start five new projects in 2025.
Please help us to bring the benefits of this incredible program to many more farming communities in East Africa - empowering communities of smallholder farmers to adopt regenerative farming practices that will revive the health of their farms, their families, their communities and their local ecosystems.
The farmers have now formed a CBO (Community Based Organization) legally registered as Nyahera Permaculture Farmers CBO. They meet weekly to discuss progress and planning for their future activities to support each other in their work. One example of this is how the farmers are adapting to flooding, a climate change impact, by growing crops that can withstand high rainfall such as arrow roots and sugar cane.
You can read Paul’s full report (pdf) HERE.
We’re still looking to raise $18,000 before the end of this year, to cover the full cost of completing the project with the farmers in Nyahera Village, and to help Paul Omollo, the Director of Farmers Alliance for Restoration- East Africa, prepare the ground to be ready to start five new projects in 2025.
Please help us to bring the benefits of this incredible program to many more farming communities in East Africa - empowering communities of smallholder farmers to adopt regenerative farming practices that will revive the health of their farms, their families, their communities and their local ecosystems.
Please donate to help fund the future of Farmers Alliance for Restoration.
Preparing the ground…
Under the banner of permEzone, we completed our seven-year pilot program at the end of 2023. We ran three pilot projects - two in Kenya, and one in Uganda - which allowed us to fully test and improve our approach to this work, gather lots of data to demonstrate its impact, while empowering hundreds of farmers to start developing healthy farming practices that will bring lasting benefits to their own and future generations.
 | Paul Omollo ran the two pilot projects in Kenya, and has now formed the NGO Farmers Alliance for Restoration- East Africa (FAR-EA) where he is serving as Director, overseeing the first post-pilot project in Nyahera Village, West Kenya, and making plans for future projects… |
New Projects
Next year FAR-EA hopes to start five new projects. Over the course of two-years, each project will bring significant, sustainable benefits to 600 farmers and their families as they learn how to re-imagine their farms as thriving natural systems, and start working together to nurture their farmland and their community. At an estimated cost of $40,000 per project, that works out at less than $65 per family - and the benefits continue to accumulate long after our projects are completed.
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