KNOWLEDGE HUB FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE AND AGROECOLOGY IN EASTERN AFRICA (KHEA)

About KHEA

The Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Eastern Africa (KHEA) is one of the five Knowledge Hubs under the The Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroeocology in Africa (KCOA) Project.

This KHEA Hub is being coordinated by Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) in Kenya as the lead agency with a co-hosting arrangement with Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda. KHEA is currently being implemented in five Eastern Africa countries with Country Implementing Partners (CIPs) as follows: Kenya; PELUM Kenya, Uganda; PELUM Uganda, Rwanda; ROAM, Tanzania; TOAM and Madagascar; GSDM and SYMABIO.
 
The main goal of the KHEA Hub is to integrate Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) into the participating countries’ agricultural systems by generating, capturing, and sharing information know-how and integrating these into agricultural practices and decision-making for improved livelihood.
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KHEA Focus Areas

In ensuring farmers have access to relevant and timely information necessary to make informed decisions and improve their livelihoods,

The project is intervening in three focus areas:

Collecting/Preparing and Validating Organic Agriculture Knowledge: 

Validated technical and methodological knowledge for the promotion of organic agriculture, including processing, is prepared for the context of the participating countries and stakeholder groups made available through suitable knowledge products.

Capacity Building and Dissemination of Organic Agriculture Knowledge: 

Validated knowledge, strategies and good practices in the field of organic agriculture, adapted to the local contexts is disseminated to relevant users.

Networking within the Organic Agriculture Value Chains:

This focus areas concerns Key actors in the organic agriculture value chains of the participating countries in Eastern Africa are networked to strengthen markets and consumption patterns for organic products.

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