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Organizations involved in Organic Agriculture in Kenya |
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Community Mobilization Against Desertification (C-MAD)
Contact person: Kassim Were Ali
Email of the contact person: k.were@cmadkenya.org
Permanent email: c_madkenya@yahoo.com or info@cmadkenya.org
Postal address: 155-40404, Rongo
Phone: +254 203 58 25 02
Web: www.cmadkenya.org
Year of Foundation: 1995
Mission:
- C-MAD strives to enable communities in Kenya improve their livelihoods, live a dignified, healthy and prosperous life through capacity building, collaboration and service delivery.
Type of Organization: NGO
Scope of the Organization: Local
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- General promotion of organic agriculture
- Food security
- Women’s rights empowerment
- Local organic market development
- Education and training on organic agriculture
- Rural development/Poverty Alleviation
- Climate change
- Combating desertification
Community Sustainable Development Empowerment Programme (COSDEP)
Contact person: Stanley Ng'ethe Kinyanjui
Permanent email: coskenya@yahoo.com
Postal address: P.O. Box 132-00621 Nairobi KENYA
Phone: +254 203 53 71 64
Web: http://cosdep.wordpress.com
Year of Foundation: 2001
Mission:
- To restore and enhance food, nutrition and security in central Kenya.
Type of Organization: NGO
Scope of the Organization: Regional
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- General promotion of organic agriculture
- Food security
- Education and training on organic agriculture
Gitundu Gataro organic Group (GGOG)
Contact person: Moses Gichuru Ndiritu
Email of the contact person: kingsolo54@hotmail.com
Permanent email: kingsolo54@yahoo.com
Postal address: PO Box 15199 Nakuru 20100
Phone: +254 722 34 31 66
Fax: +254 202 37 23 68
Year of Foundation: 1993
Mission:
- Spread the need and the benefit of organic farming as panacea of environmental, health, sustainable farming practice and food security answer to the depleted and wailing mother earth.
Type of Organization: NGO
Scope of the Organization: National
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- General promotion of organic agriculture
- Food security
- Advocacy and lobbying against GMOs
- International marketing and trade on organic agriculture
- Local organic market development
- Education and training on organic agriculture
- Rural development/Poverty Alleviation
- Extension on organic agriculture
- Consumer awareness of organic products
- Nutrition and Health
- Climate change
- Combating desertification
Kenya Organic Agriculture Network
Contact person: Eustace Kiarii, National Co-ordinator
Permanent email: ekiarii@koan.co.ke
Postal address: P.O. Box 72461-00200 Nairobi KENYA
Phone: +254 20 261 0863
Web: www.koan.co.ke
Year of Foundation: 2004
Mission:
- To coordinate, facilitate and provide leadership and professional services to all members and other stakeholders in the organic agriculture industry in Kenya.
Type of Organization: NGO
Scope of the Organization: National
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- General promotion of organic agriculture
- Advocacy and lobbying against GMOs and against the alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
- International marketing and trade on organic agriculture
- Local organic market development
- Certification
- Consumer awareness of organic products
- Policy review for organic agriculture
- Climate change
Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF)
Contact person: John Njoroge
Permanent email: kiof@iconnect.co.ke
Postal address: P. O. Box 34972 00100 NAIROBI, Kenya
Phone: +254 672 50 09 / 24 264
Cell: +254 733 79 90 72/ 81 72 40
Fax: +254 20 41 83 194
Web: www.kiof.org
Year of Foundation:
Mission:
- KIOF trains smallholder farmers in organic farming methods using locally available resources, including local indigenous knowledge, for maximum production to feed a growing population.
Type of Organization:
Scope of the Organization:
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- Holistic approach to the farming system
- Composting techniques
- Planting systems
- Crop storage
- Animal husbandry
- Crop protection and soil conservation
Kenya Organic Agriculture and Enviromental Technologies Institute (KOAETEC)
Contact person: Martin N. Wangila
Email of the contact person: martinnyongesa75@yahoo.co.uk
Permanent email: koaetec2007@yahoo.co.uk
Postal address: 646-60100
Phone/Fax: +254 722 35 44 51
Year of Foundation: 2007
Mission:
- Train, offer extension, advocate, poverty alleviation and marketing development
Type of Organization: NGO
Scope of the Organization: National
Organic Agriculture related main activities:
- General promotion of organic agriculture
- Food security
- Advocacy and lobbying against GMOs and against the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
- International marketing and trade on organic agriculture
- Local organic market development
- Education, research and training on organic agriculture
- Certification
- Rural development/Poverty Alleviation
- Extension on organic agriculture
- Consumer awareness of organic products
- Nutrition and health
- Policy review for organic agriculture
- Climate change and combating desertification
- Food processing
- Collection from wild
Natural 'U'
Contact person: Oliver Icharia
Email of the contact person: suplog2@yahoo.com
Postal address: State House Road P.O. Box 1355 00100 Nairobi
Phone: +254 272 58 10
Fax: +254 271 43 22
Web: www.afrimed.org
Organic Africa Consultancy (part of Bagenal Associates)
Contact person: Sally Bagenal
Email of the contact person: sally.bagenal@organic-africa.biz
Postal address: P.O Box 63433 Nairobi 00619, Kenya
Phone: +254 722 90 30 73
Web: www.organic-africa.biz
Participatory Ecological Land Use Management Association
Contact person: Zachary Makanya
Email of the contact person: pelumkenya@pelum.net
Postal address: P.O. Box 1134 Thika, Kenya
Phone: +254 673 16 86
Fax: +254 673 55
Web: www.pelum.net
Centre for Research in Environment Kenya
Contact person: Nicholas Ngece
Email of the contact person: creek_kenya@yahoo.com
Postal address: PO Box 19844-00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: +254 722 40 75 58
Sustainable Agriculture Community Development Programme
Contact person: J. Ngugi Mutura
Email of the contact person: sacdepkenya@iconnect.co.ke
Postal address: Upper Hill Road Next Central Memorial Hospital P.O.Box 1134 Thika 01000, Kenya
Phone: +254 15 13 05 41
Fax: +254 673 55
Web: www.sacdepkenya.org
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