The successful merger of cooperatives

We like to share the remarkable success story of Mukaturi Primary Dairy Cooperative, which successfully merged with nine other cooperatives, each with limited capital. This merger is a powerful testament to how collaboration, strategic planning, and resource pooling can overcome significant financial disparities and create a more sustainable and prosperous cooperative entity.

Climate-Smart Cereal Crops

Reviving Food Security in Drought-Stricken Lower Eastern Region-Kenya

Written by Esther Mwende Kalanza, Cooperative Advisor in Kenya

Farmers in Machakos and the entire lower eastern region, a semi-arid and arid region of Kenya, have continuously planted their traditional food crops at the onset of every long or short rains with the hope of good harvests to sustain them. However, in the recent past, they have continuously suffered major crop losses due to prevailing harsh climatic conditions leading to food and nutrition insecurity.