Two decades of field experience inform expert training in climate-smart farming, enterprise skills, and systems thinking, creating new opportunities for smallholder farmers to increase production, incomes, and resilience.
FIPS Africa designs training for smallholder farmers, VBAs, agrodealers, aggregators, and strategic partners. FIPS programmes combine hands-on farmer learning, enterprise development, and systems approaches, drawing on over two decades of practical experience working alongside smallholder farmers.
FIPS delivers practical, field-based training through our extensive network of Village-based Advisors (VBAs), youth enterprise agents and Farm Business Agents (FBAs). Training focuses on:
The training programmes combine hands-on field learning, enterprise skills, and systems thinking, grounded in two decades of practical experience to drive the following measurable impacts:
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Improving soil health and resilience through:
Promoting access to high-yield, resilient staple seeds:
Quality seedlings, nutrition, and management:
Maximising yield and market profitability:
Boosting dairy productivity through:
Advancing chicken health and productivity:
In Coastal Kenya, VBAs are supporting smallholder farmers to rear improved chicken and grow maize, beans, green grams, pigeon pea, vegetables, pawpaw, coconuts and cashew-nuts. [Mission Grow* – also see section on Youth Enterprise]
In Eastern Kenya, VBAs are working to improve food security for smallholder farmers, and improved incomes through sales of surplus and cash crops. VBAs work with options like improving varieties of cereals, and legumes; crop nutrition; tillage methods; and crop/grain protection. The focus is on increased yields in maize, beans, cowpeas, green grams, pigeon peas, vegetables, oranges and mango. VBAs are also supporting smallholder farmers to raise improved chicken breeds. [Mission Grow* – also see section on Youth Enterprise]
In the Rift Valley, VBAs are supporting access to clean potato planting material through Apical Rooted Cuttings technology – transplants from tissue culture materials.
Join us in expanding the VBA model to reach more households. Together, we can bridge the gap between innovation and the smallholder farmers who need it most.