Kilimo Jijini

PROJECT DETAILS

Kilimo Jijini’s core objective is to make it possible for marginalized urban communities to be sustainable in food production. We see food security and sovereignty is one of the key components to peaceful, healthy stable communities.

We work with CBO partners such as Mazingira Women to train communities on urban and peri-urban farming techniques. These are organic and soil-less production systems that require small spaces to grow food. In urban cities across the world just like in Nairobi, space is a major limiting factor to producing food locally. We will work with existing innovative techniques as well as our own modified and adapted systems of growing food, that best suits the needs of the community. Kilimo Jijini is also concerned about food sovereignty. Producing food is just one piece of the puzzle, but working with communities to enable them produce food that align and preserves their culture is just as critical. This is not only to increase adoption of the techniques but also to involve the community holistically, respecting their food, which in many cases is deeply roped in their culture.

Despite being the biggest contributors to our food systems, historically women have not had access to adequate training to enable produce enough food. Kilimo Jijini works primarily with women to provide them with the tools to maximize their spaces for food production. These include demo farm trainings, community follow-ups, knowledge exchange and ideas brainstorm sessions. We work together with the community as partners to make urban farming a possibility.