SALI Kenya
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya.
Rice Paddys.
Rice Paddys.
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. A field of Maize with mobile phone mast in the background.
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. An SMS sent by the SALI Project office providing a regional weather forecast.
The SALI (Sustainable Agriculture Livelihood Innovation) Project works with farmers groups, training members in farming techniques and assisting in the marketing of produce.SALI also provides members with up to date weather forecasts via SMS, allowing farmers to plan their planting and weeding schedules according to predicted rainfall.
The SALI (Sustainable Agriculture Livelihood Innovation) Project works with farmers groups, training members in farming techniques and assisting in the marketing of produce.SALI also provides members with up to date weather forecasts via SMS, allowing farmers to plan their planting and weeding schedules according to predicted rainfall.
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. Rev. Dorris Kagendo Fundi sits her daughter Joy whilst reading an SMS weather forcast sent by the SALI Project office.
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. Members of the SALI Project harvest green grams (Mung beans).
Green Grams (Mung beans), one of the many crops produced by Beatrice Mwende Ngumbi and Reuben Ngumbi Muasa, members of the SALI Project.
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. Members of the SALI project winnow Green Grams (Mung beans).
Mwea, Embu County, Kenya. Members of the SALI project winnow Green Grams (Mung beans).
Members of the SALI project winnow Green Grams (Mung beans).
Reuben Ngumbi Muasa stands in a field recently havested of green grams (mung beans).
Reuben Ngumbi Muasa walks with his youngest son Luis Mwende Ngumbi (far left,4), daughter Beatrice Mwende Ngumbi (centre, 8) and their friend past one of their Maize fields in the backgraound. In the foreground is a field of the same crop by a farmer that has not adopted SALI techniques showing the contrast in quality of the produce before and after the intervention of SALI.
Reuben Ngumbi Muasa's children Luis Mwende Ngumbi (4) and Beatrice Mwende Ngumbi (8) play with their friend in the fields after school.
Beatrice Mwende Ngumbi stands in one of her Sogum fields. Her crop yields have greatly improved since adopting techniques that she aquired through training from the SALI Project.