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AgriProFocus Kenya 2013: Empowering Through Collaboration

AgriProFocus Kenya aims to achieve knowledge sharing, joint action, and networking in agribusiness and food security sector. Through various activities, workshops, and events, members seek to enhance access to finance, promote innovations and technology, and facilitate business relationships. The network focuses on supporting dairy groups, organizing fairs, workshops on soil fertility and aquaculture, and fostering gender-inclusive value chains. Online platforms, exchange visits, and networking events play a crucial role in engaging members and shaping the future agenda. For more information, visit our website or follow us on Twitter.

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AgriProFocus Kenya 2013: Empowering Through Collaboration

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  1. APF Kenya 2013 Plans 30th January 2013 Amos Thiong’o

  2. What we aim to achieve • Knowledge sharing • Joint Action • Networking

  3. Approach • Members enumerated activities they would want to see during the Network Day • 3 core groups set up • Access to Finance • Agri-business and food security • Innovations and technology in Agric • Core Groups identify activities to jointly implement

  4. Access to Finance • 8 – 10 Farmers exhibition fairs. KLPA is the lead organization. B2B platform set up to run parallel to B2C exhibition • Documenting impact of exhibition fairs • Action Learning group on access to financial services for dairy sector in Kenya – case study of JuhudiKilimo supported dairy groups • Financial service providers cocktail

  5. Innovations & Technology Group • Eastern Africa Farmer innovations Fair – Lead Organization is Prolinnova Kenya. The fair will be hosted on 28th and 29th May. The organizing committee is made up of various stakeholders • Corporate Innovations workshop

  6. Agri-business and food security group • Soil fertility and diagnosis workshop – disseminate practices of soil fertility maintenance • Online Youth Challenge “farming is cool”. Document what would attract youth as agri-preneurs • Exchange visit to cheese making farm • Farm – Firm relationship brokering workshop • Aquaculture workshop and exchange visit to RIAT and Dominion farm in Nyanza

  7. Other Cross Cutting activities • Gender in value chains coaching trajectory • 18 participants to be recruited to be part of the trajectory • 1 week residential training session • On site follow up • Exchange visits for peer review • Horticulture and food security alliance - coordinating the learning agenda • Online platform – make it more attractive, vibrant and a one-stop shop for info and networking • Networking events – network day (with a bigger market place), cocktails • Deals brokerage and linkages

  8. What do we anticipate from our members • Increased information sharing through our online platform and events • Increased joint activities – engagement • Shaping the agenda for the future – where do we want to go? • Active participation in events • Contributions where necessary

  9. For more information, please visit our website: http//apf-kenya.ning.com Follow us on Twitter: @agriprofocus

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