Kenyan Women Learn Biointensive Farming (KHSP)

Kenya—a country of nearly 35 million people—presently produces less than 50% of the food that its population needs to survive. Much of the agricultural land has been depleted by years of chemical-heavy industrial farming, and small-scale growers were long ago forced out of business by cheap subsidized imports from Western nations. Without a strong local agricultural economy, Kenya's people are at the mercy of international market prices for food, and when prices rise, the poor go hungry.

A grassroots NGO called Kilili Self-Help Project (KSHP) is working to reverse this problem, reducing Kenyans' dependency on imported foreign crops by promoting local, sustainable farming that helps communities feed themselves. KSHP has taught more than 100,000 local growers to implement ecologically sound farming methods that produce more food on small pieces of land, to reverse declining soil fertility, low crop yields, and the downward spiral of poverty that has been consuming Kenya's poor rural class.

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