Thank you for visiting the PELUM Kenya website. This is a regional network facilitating learning, networking, advocacy and lobbying in east, central & southern Africa.
Here you will find important information on our work in ecological land use, agriculture, learning and networking. Feel free to leave us a comment after your web-tour to help us serve you better with information. Welcome all.
The Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) is an African Initiative that was borne out of a meeting hosted by PELUM Kenya in may 2011, for key stakeholders. This was an inception workshop for working out the roadmap for developing an initiative by the development partners to apply ecological concepts and principles to promote sustainable agro-ecosystems.
This resulted in a five-year programme whose Vision is to mainstream into National Agricultural Systems by the year 2020. from October 2011 to December 2012, this programme will kick off on a pilot basis, with PELUM Kenya as the interim coordinating body. There is need to raise funds for the support of this initiative and for more details, please see a presentation in summary as presented in a recent meeting in Brussels, Belgium
The Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Programme .pdf
Agricultural biodiversity, smallholder farmers, and adaptive capacity status of knowledge in the context of resilience and transformations
From the 10th – 12th October 2011, OXFAM Novib and HIVOS (Netherlands) will hold a meeting for practictioners in agriculture and rural development in ACP Countries. The meeting will bring together partner organizations that have previously participated in responses on mapping knowledge on sustainable agriculture, biodiversity management, climate change adaptation and mitigation. The main purpose of this meeting is to share findings from this survey, and map intervention strategies as a way forward.
The participants will also get the opportunity to interact with local community members hosted by the Institute of Culture and Ecology (ICE), a member of the Africa Biodiversity Network (ABN); and INADES Formation a PELUM Kenya Member Organization. The meeting is expected to bring together a total of 25 development practitioners from Africa, Asia and Europe. The meeting will be hosted by PELUM-Kenya in at the Sustainable Agriculture Community Development Programme (SACDEP) Training and Conference Centre in Thika.
OXFAM Novib envisions a world in which everybody can build an independent livelihood, thus supporting people in developing countries working on their own future as a matter of justice. In the same breadth, HIVOS mission is to contribute to a world with equal opportunities for people to develop their talents by offering financial support as well as advising, networking, advocacy, providing education and exchanging knowledge.