Help us establish kitchen gardens for families in rural Kenya suffering from food insecurity. Kitchen gardens, planted with indigenous vegetables like kale, cowpeas, and pumpkin leaves, are a cheap and sustainable source of nutrition for families with no agricultural land. The community Nasio Trust works in has high rates of malnutrition and food insecurity. Increasing people's capacity to grow their own food is a long-term strategy to manage this issue.
Malnutrition and food insecurity are growing problems in Mumias West Sub-County in rural Kenya despite its rich agrarian land. Climate shocks, food inflation, and poor access to governmental subsidies has left families vulnerable to hunger. Not only are they unable to grow grain crops but they are not able to buy them at inflated prices either. Food security is directly affecting children's enrolment in school, their learning outcomes, and people's capacity to earn a living.
Kitchen gardens provide a cheap source of food once the initial capital costs of seeds, tools, and fertilisers has been met. Local vegetable varieties will provide essential nutrients to food insecure families. Nasio staff will also be training beneficiaries in using plastic bottles or tyres to maximise the use of available space to ensure that those without any land can also grow their own gardens.
Our Kitchen Gardens Project will help agrarian communities become self-sufficient in vegetables for household use. Eventually, as their management becomes more efficient, produce from the garden can be sold to earn an income. Furthermore, through the use of organic fertilisers and promotion of the use of indigenous plants, these kitchen gardens will restore soil nutrients and promote greener agriculture.
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