The Challenge

Family farmers in dry land regions and high rainfall regions have watched their farmland lose its fertility. Vegetation cover is disappearing, and harvests decline unpredictably from one season to the next — from over 2,000 kilograms of cereals per year in the past, down to between 300 and 500 kilograms today.

Farmers often have no tools and no skills to bring their land back to life. They also have no way to measure what is happening on their land. They cannot see how fast the soil, trees, and water are being lost, so they have no way to plan how to bring them back.

Without support, land degradation continues each season. Food becomes harder to find, and hunger and poverty grow deeper for the families who depend on this land. Young people become scared of farming and migrate to slum regions in town.

Kaliro Farmer-Managed Community Restoration Project, Uganda

Budini Farmers Hub

A gathering place for family farmers in Budini

The soil in Budini has grown weak. Trees are fewer each year. Harvests that once fed whole families now come up short, season after season.

Yet no farmer here stands alone. They come together to learn as one — growing food the regenerative way to bring the soil back to life, letting old roots and stumps regrow trees on their own, and using the Plantix app to catch pests, disease, and bad weather before real harm is done.

Elders pass down what years on this land have taught them. Young people bring new energy and bold ideas. Together, they are building something lasting: food on the table, and a future worth staying for.

Kwale Farmer-Managed Community Restoration Project, Kenya

Kinango Farmers Hub

A gathering place for family farmers in Kinango

The soil here is dry and tired. Each year, fewer trees stand. Harvests families once relied on now feel like a gamble, season after season.

But no one faces this dry ground alone. In the cool morning light, families come together to work the land as one — growing food the regenerative way to bring the soil back to life, letting old roots grow new trees on their own, and using the Plantix app to catch pests, disease, and bad weather before real harm is done.

Elders carry the wisdom of a lifetime on this soil. Young people bring fresh drive and new thinking. Row by row, together, they are growing something that lasts: steady food for their families, and hope for seasons still to come.

Makueni Farmer-Managed Community Restoration Project, Kenya

Kibwezi Farmers Hub

Hard seasons in Kibwezi, Makueni County, once meant harvests no one could count on. Now, rows of green stretch wide and full — proof of what steady care can grow.

Family farmers come together in hubs of 50–100 families, where they learn and farm side by side.

They grow food crops using four low-cost techniques:

• Regenerative farming to improve soil fertility
• Crop diversification to spread risk and improve nutrition
• Assisted Natural Regeneration — letting old tree stumps, roots, and leaves regrow into trees, increasing tree cover
• The Plantix app to detect crop pests, disease, and bad weather early

Together, these low-cost techniques address severe food insecurity, chronic poverty, and inequality in marginalized, remote regions.

Turkana Farmer-Managed Community Restoration Project, Kenya

Loima Farmers Hub

A gathering place for family farmers in Loima

The land in Loima stretches dry and red, shaped by drought and worn by hard years. Yet across the cracked ground, small patches of green keep pushing through, proof that life still wants to return.

Here, families gather to bring the soil back to health. They grow food the regenerative way, and they build small earth walls that hold rain in the ground for weeks, giving buried seeds the time they need to sprout on their own. The Plantix app helps them catch pests, disease, and bad weather before disaster hits.

Patch by patch, root by root, they are turning cracked red earth back into land that can feed their families once more.