We train them, provide them quality farming inputs on loan and create a market for the farmers. Momentum Trust is a Danish established NGO who develop Africa through business and not through grants, as the typical NGO does. We mobilise small-scale farmers in rural Kenya, give them agricultural training and quality seeds and fertilizer as a loan. When they harvest, they pay us back, and we make sur
e their harvest can be sold to companies who are interested in their produce. The farmers are mobilized in groups of ten people. The group approach enables them to assist each other with plowing, planting, weeding and harvesting and also function as a guarantee, as the groups only receive farming inputs (seeds and fertilizer) if every member attends all group formation and farming skills training sessions. So far, all groups have repaid their loans, some of them even before they were supposed to. Read more at momentumtrust.com
