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Forum On Youth Employment Creation In Agriculture and Agro-processing Held
CABE works to enhance Climate-Smart Pastoral Innovations in Kenya
Different counties in Kenya have their unique challenges which call for different strategies to address their development needs. Our focus today is on the pastoralist communities whose mobile way of life may makes it difficult for them to benefit from ongoing...
Institutionalizing informed policies, a solution to Kenya’s youth unemployment
The Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE) has given an impetus to the ongoing Kenya-wide concerns on the need to institutionalize the use of evidence in the country’s policy making, implementation, and evaluation. This is timely as the country continues to...
WFE empowers a woman entrepreneur in Kisumu County
Young woman entrepreneur tells of her experience during the Global Food Challenges Programme Second Mid-Term Review (MTR) meeting in Nairobi. (small subtitle) This interview was conducted by Ms. Eunice Likoko, University of Amsterdam (UvA) Ph.D. Student. Jennifer...
Forum calls for acceleration of agricultural policy in Kenya
The first Agricultural Industry Forum (AIF) and exhibition was officially opened on March 3, 2020, at the Nairobi Hospital Convention Centre. The forum called on designing and incorporating more innovative technologies and increased investment by the private sector...
Agricycle East Africa, CABE partners to empower women and youth in fruit agribusiness
On January 31, the Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship signed a partnership agreement with Agricycle East Africa Limited to empower smallholder farmers, women, and youth by creating market linkages for value-added fruits. Agricycle East Africa Ltd is a social...
CABE successfully hosts APRA Annual workshop 2019
The Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE) successfully hosted the APRA Annual Review and Planning Workshop in Naivasha from 2-6 December 2019. Members of the three APRA workstreams and APRA Consortium, stationed at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS),...
Heavy downpour continues until December, KMD says
A heavy downpour expected to strike the entire country this week has been attributed to the unusual warming of the Indian Ocean. The phenomenon, called the Indian Ocean Dipole, happens nearly every 10 years, unleashing destructive rains and flooding across East...
Kisumu Governor embraces mini-farming in the cities
Urban agriculture is a hot topic for discussion currently in the wake of African city development. The role of women food entrepreneurs who aim to meet the growing demands of fresh fruits and vegetables in city markets is paramount but they are struggling. For many...