G-BIACK OUTREACH

G-BIACK works with farming communities where they are experiencing low food production. 80% of the Kenyan population are farmers, and of these, 90% are small-scale farm holders. Nevertheless, a majority of Kenyan families sleep hungry and wake up without hope of getting food the following day. Food prices have gone up and poverty, which has long been a serious problem, is progressively worsening. People are increasingly unable to buy food or inputs for their farms. G-BIACK aims at helping resource poor farmer collaborators to respond to their food security and soil/crop productivity challenges.

The relative decline in food production is due to many factors, such as:

• Escalating prices of agricultural inputs
• Decline in soil fertility due to continuous use of chemical fertilizers
• Increase in pests and diseases that are resistant to chemicals
• Unreliability of rainfall, coupled with scarce ground water sources
• Soil erosion