International Research & Development Africa Ltd Improving Incomes

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800 million livestock keepers and 33 million smallholder farmers produce 80% of the food in Africa. Most of these farmers and herders are living below the poverty line.

International Research and Development Africa Ltd, (IRDA) supports and trains smallholder farmers particularly women/youth in adapting a circular bioeconomy and climate change mitigation to build resilience, increase productivity and incomes.

We integrate agroecology, conservation and regenerative agriculture, livestock, low-carbon farming, carbon capture and storage know-how to improve soil acidity, water and nutrient retention, and reduce methane emissions from paddy rice and livestock.

We are investing in a scalable, replicable, farmers’ training, technology transfer, demonstration & value addition center

Trained farmers are contracted for offtake farming and supported with virtual agronomy. Their harvests are purchased at sustainable prices, aggregated, value-added, packaged & taken to ma

Sectors Agribusiness, Animal farming, Crop farming
Location Nairobi, Kenya
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