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Is development in Africa a cause of famine? 31 May 2012 | 02:51 pm
The cows came home the other evening whilst preparing for a presentation. It suddenly dawned on me that what I had been trying to articulate for years was staring me in the face. It’s simple really. I...
Innovators need resilience like cockroaches and rats. 24 Apr 2012 | 03:45 am
Beyond the brilliance of their innovations, innovators need to have characters made of steel. Implementation and scaling of an innovation requires cash,which is often in short supply when most needed....
iCow 27 Oct 2010 | 11:25 pm
Agri mobile app developed by Su Kahumbu Stephanou of Green Dreams Ltd. First Prize Winner of Apps4Africa Competition 2010 What you didn’t know about a COW Cows like humans have a 9 month gestation ...
Kibera Youth Reform Organic Farm one year later! 4 Aug 2009 | 07:30 am
A year after the Kibera Youth Reform Group started their Organic farm, the farm is looking better than ever with an abundance of healthy crops ranging from Kales, cabbage, spinach, carrots, onions, ok...
Breeding like Rabitts in Gilgil :) 30 Jan 2009 | 09:40 pm
Gilgil is a town resting on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, about half an hours drive up towards Nakuru from famous Lake Naivasha. The land rises around the town in spectacular volcanic ridges upo...
Help Kenyan farmers petition against the flawed Biosafety Bill 2008 23 Dec 2008 | 10:01 pm
The President of Kenya his Excellency Mwai Kibaki is soon set to sign a flawed Biosafety Bill that has caused much uproar and seen farmers in Kenya staging a week long campaign to stop the signing. O...
Zero Tillage- A Testimonial 17 Sep 2008 | 01:12 pm
THE GREAT DISCOVOREY On 5th Sep 2007; at 8.00am I took the farm tractor mounted with the planter with a mission to do the craziest thing in the farm. To plant baby corn seeds in block m03; a block wh...
Sunflowers in Kibera 14 Sep 2008 | 08:57 pm
Hello, this is Paula. I’m a guest blogger for Su. I wrote about this farm on my blog called Baraza at WildilfeDirect and on a blog about African innovations on Afrigadget and in both cases readers wer...
A Bridge too far!!! 29 Jul 2008 | 10:06 pm
Dom just works silently in the background. He recently walked over 8 kilometers (he calls it a nice stroll) with the guys from Kibera to get the vermiculture tanks………..True to his nature he took pictu...
It gets better and better!!!! 29 Jul 2008 | 09:21 pm
I believe in the saying ‘A river will always flow it’s course’………..no matter what we do, what we think , how we plan………….somethings take on a life of their own…………and now once a dangerous dump site ou...
