Upscalling & Implemetation Details:

Ripple Effect received KES 6,813,000 in May 2020 to implement a 2-year project titled ‘Improving access, productivity and marketing of Improved Indigenous Chicken for smallholder farmers’.The project is implemented in Navakholo and Mumias East Sub-Counties of Kakamega County. The project integrates improved indigenous chicken (IIC) bred by KALRO with the climate-adapted farm systems approach of Ripple Effect.

The action aims at increased awareness of the improved KALRO indigenous chicken, increased availability of IIC in the market, and adoption of it into smallholder farm systems to enhance productivity and incomes, whilst building the foundations for greater integration of smallholders into the poultry value chain and markets. The project targets to reach 1,056 farmers directly and 9,056 households indirectly through social, print and mass media.