PELUM News

PELUM Kenya in partnership with its member organization Inades Formation Kenya will hold the 2015 World Food Day (WFD) celebrations at Mwala market-Machakos County on 16th October 2015. The theme for the 2015 WFD celebrations will be Social Protection and Agriculture. This theme has been chosen to highlight its importance in reducing rural poverty and

The Green Action Week (GAW) is an annual civil society campaign to raise consumer awareness on sustainable consumption patterns. The campaign is an initiative by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and is coordinated jointly with Consumer International (CI). This year, GAW is focusing on organic food and farming for all. This theme is a

PELUM-Kenya  will hold the Country Working Group (CWG) meeting on 30th September and 1st October 2015. The meeting will be held in Kitui and will be hosted by Kitui Development Center (KDC). The arrival day will be in the evening of  Tuesday 29th September 2015 and departure will be in the morning of Friday 2nd

2015 EVENTS CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE WORKSHOP A workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) will be held at Chester Hotel, Nakuru on 24th to 26th June 2015 for PELUM Kenya Member Organizations. 2015 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at SACDEP Kenya Training and Conference Facility, Thika on May 28

This documentary is the second of PELUM Kenya's documentation series where member organizations share best practices and experiences on elum practices.  It features Sustainable Agriculture integration into National education systems as applies at Baraka Agricultural College, one of PELUM Kenya’s MOs. It features beekeeping, a prominent activity at BAC and the community groups hey work

PELUM Kenya as a network has been in the forefront of creating awareness on the importance of Seed Security and community driven seed saving systems, while at the same time creating awareness on GMOs and its implication to African agriculture, a technology that is  contrary to the practices and systems that are used in small

In October 2013, PELUM Kenya in partnership with Global partners of the Green action Week from Philippines, Brazil, Uganda and Sweden will hold a Global Green Action Week. The focus in 2013 will be to highlight to consumers how eating and consumption choices and patterns impact on the environment. PELUM will partner with Masipag, Centro

PELUM- Kenya realized that for ecological land use management and practices to be mainstreamed in the agricultural programme, the draft National Environment Policy, 2012 which has not been enacted needs to be implemented. The policy recommends that natural resource management issues to be mainstreamed in all agricultural policies. The public is being consulted before it

The Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) is an African Initiative that was borne out of a meeting hosted by PELUM Kenya in may 2011, for key stakeholders.  This was an inception workshop for working out the roadmap for developing an initiative by the development partners to apply ecological concepts and  principles to promote sustainable agro-ecosystems. This