This is a multi-stakeholder project that seeks to transform Prosopis juliflora from an invasive threat into biochar and biochar-based biofertilizers creating a co-designed value chain for eco-friendly, socially inclusive and economically sustainable management, thereby promoting ecological restoration, economic growth, and community resilience.
We purpose to initiate farmer-led restoration and regeneration of Prosopis infested lands and degraded landscapes through the adoption of circular economy-based approaches on privately owned lands. The second pathway involves KERA Village Champions (Nature Positive Villages) as foot on-the-ground implementers. We undertake a systemic mapping of 200 neighboring households to form a Nature Positive Village, economically governed by a respective Nature Positive Cooperative, dedicated to implement a silvoarable agroforestry system on a 2000-hectare of community land. We are piloting this groundbreaking locally-led climate action solution in Tana River County, Coastal Kenya.
The 2000-hectare area (Nature Positive Village) is divided into three zones to fit the local dynamics uniquely designed to simultaneously revitalize mango, fodder, forage and bamboo value chain development with multiple socio-economic and environmental outcomes. The project has integrated sustainable honey-bee value chain aiming to establish honey-bee hub per sub-county. These hubs will serve as Centers of Excellence for promoting commercial-scale honey-bee farming as a nature-positive social agroenterprise. Based on the Tripartite Business Model and the Market Oriented Producer Enterprise (MOPE) approach, our objective is to align with market needs, enhance competitiveness, and boost profitability by leveraging on the farm-to-fork concept. Project will equally focus its nonfinancial Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) on honey-bee services.