Establishment of Seedling Nurseries

• Country: Kenya
• Summary: Establishment of Seedling Nurseries
• KET Ref No: 68898193
• Deadline: 15 Jul 2022
• Financier: Other Funding Agencies
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
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• Tenders are invited for Establishment of 20 Seedling Nurseries in 14 Farmers Cooperatives across Bungoma, Nandi and Kericho Counties. Closing Date: 15 Jul 2022 Type: Consultancy Themes: Agriculture/Climate Change and Environment Solidaridad East and Central Africa is a not-for-profit organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya that strives to be an organisation that understands the signs of modern times. Established in 2008 Solidaridad ECA is part of Solidaridad Network, a Dutch based development organisation operating in five continents through eight Regional Expertise Centres. With its network secretariat in The Netherlands, Solidaridad has over 50 years of global experience working in the development of profitable supply chains and creating sustainable businesses and livelihoods. Solidaridad envisions a world in which all we produce, and all we consume can sustain us while respecting the planet, each other and the next generations. Solidaridad embraces the public-private partnerships in order to innovate, speeding up change and taking success to scale. Globally, Solidaridad works across 13 commodities / sectors. Coffee is one of them. For more information, please refer to http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org 1.1 Introduction Kenya-s coffee production continues to be increasingly smallholder dominated as large plantations, especially in the growing areas that border urban centres give way to housing developments. Both National and County governments are promoting coffee farming in non-traditional coffee growing areas as well as the rehabilitation of abandoned farms to ensure sustained production. The total area under coffee is estimated at 160,000 hectares, about one third of which is the plantation sector and the rest under the smallholder sector with an estimated 700,000 growers. 1.2 Project Summary The shift toward sustainable food consumption patterns and preferences is attributed to the health and environmental risks associated with some harmful farming practises in conventional agriculture, including use of synthetic fertilisers or harmful pesticides. To meet this growing demand for sustainable products and services, more retailers are increasingly sourcing for organic produce. Through the Traceable Organic Coffee from Kenya Project (TRACE Kenya), smallholder farmers (30% women and 10 % youth) in Kericho, Nandi and Bungoma counties are gradually converting into organic coffee production. Our approach is focused on capacity building initiatives and interactive training on innovative farming practises, facilitating access to high yielding and disease resistant coffee varieties and promoting eco-friendly technologies in organic coffee production. Adoption of organic agricultural practises is slowly stimulating development of organic inputs supply chains and innovations as well as improved coffee quality and volumes increasing farmer incomes and creating new job opportunities. In addition, the youth are being equipped with the right skills to enable them to pursue economic opportunities on and off the farm in relation to coffee production. Within the Kenyan coffee sector, the trend towards organic and sustainable practises is a strategic move that allows more local farmers to access the competitive high value markets while contributing to reduction of the associated health risks and negative environmental impacts and promoting sustainable use of the earth-s resources. Our partner African Coffee Roasters EPZ Limited (ACR) is committed to adding value by locally roasting certified organic coffee and producing sustainable coffee brands for their clients in Europe and beyond. The project-s ultimate innovation is not only in the delivery of the first organic certified Kenyan coffee from smallholder farmer cooperatives to global consumers but also to improve their productivity and quality of coffee produced after the transition. Through our new partnership (in 2022) with Twisted Leaf, the TRACE Kenya project will integrate interventions that will allow for utilisation of dried organic certified coffee leaves in the manufacture of beverages. This diversification approach will make it possible for smallholder coffee farmers to earn extra income from selling both certified cherry/green bean and dried coffee leaves. Implementing this new model alongside climate-smart farming practises and the introduction of smallholder coffee farmers to carbon trading through the ACORN Platform, will not only improve circularity and biodiversity but also create additional revenue streams for thousands of smallholder farmers in Kenya.
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