Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a crop production system that is based on three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations. Unique to CA is that it holds tremendous potential for all sizes of farms and agro-ecological systems, including those of smallholder farmers who are food insecure. Conservation Agriculture has made a significant contribution in increasing food production in areas where smallholder farmers struggle to produce food because of frequent droughts, infertile soils and labor shortages.

The CA-Kenya Hub is a network of organizations and institutions and was established in 2011. It was started by 5 (five) organizations funded by the Canadian Food Grainbank (CFGB) - MCC, CBM, World Relief Canada, World Renew, ADRA and 3 local implementing partner members: National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), Utooni Development Organization (UDO), Sahelian Solutions (SASOL). Since then, CA Kenya Hub has grown to almost 20 official members and 60 participants on online platform by 2022. The CA-Kenya Hub connects organizations and builds capacity of its members to promote sustainable food security through conservation agriculture. Accomplishments of the CA-Kenya Hub include the following: trainings, linkages to conferences, exchange visits, consistent quarterly meetings as a hub, information sharing amongst members, fundraising efforts, and linking/networking with other organizations. Individually most of the members are involved in projects implemented in different counties and are aimed to promote the CA practice. They therefore bring a diversity of experience that provides a very good platform for knowledge sharing.

In light of the benefits of CA, many organizations around the world are actively working to increase their capacity to design and implement CA programs. Specific focus areas include increasing the capacity of implementing partners to train field staff on CA, scaling up the adoption of CA in communities, assuring that best practices are followed, Institutionalizing CA within the relevant organizations and policy, providing a forum to discuss challenges and learning’s and adaptations, and adding to the generalizable knowledge and learning’s of CA globally.

Invariably , CA Hub-Kenya seeks to achieve its strategic objective through the following: