Agriculture Digitisation
We are Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum KESSFF a registered grassroots village based membership network of Small Scale Farmers SSFs, operating in 75%of the Republic of Kenya and part of a similar larger regional network for East, Central and South African Countries, born out of the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development WSSD02 in Johannesburg we bring together SSFs through empowering them with capacities to articulate issues affecting them namely domestic and global policies domestic and international market access availability of SSFs friendly credit and Climate Change CC effects due to droughts, floods and landslides hence mitigation and adaptation measures through Agroecological techniques ie Organic Farming, Agroforestry and Permanent Agriculture ie Permaculture. In the past we have participated in African Growth and Opportunities Act AGOA trade between Africa and USA ,Economic Partnership Agreements EPAs trade between Africa and EU, Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICAD African and Japan, World Trade Organisation WTO, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD, African Union AU DELIBERATIONS like AfCTA,ECOWAS,SADEC EAC INTERATIION PROCESS and THE COMESA Ɓeing in the UN Decade of Family Farming UNDFF which mostly affects women together with Kenya Government Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries, Private Sector Organisations PSOs, Civil Society Organisation CSOs and with funding and technicall support from IFAD and FAO we have established the Kenya National Committee of Family Farming KNCFF and identified several women champions. Also we are the Facilitator for East African Civil Society Mechanism CSM in UN FAO attending the UN World Committee on Food Security CFS where we disseminate information on the Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land Forests and Fisheries VGGT in context of National Food Security Systems NFSS. Finally we are seeking partnerships with like minded organisations for their techno/ccommercial inputs to support the upscaling in digitisation of our projects for wider applications please send us the details of the information for such engagements
