ABOUT KHEA

The KHEA Hub is one of the five Hubs of the Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA) Project. It is part of the One World – No Hunger initiative by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through its executing agency GIZ to support a network of regional knowledge hubs for organic farming in Eastern, Western, Northern, Central and Southern Africa.

Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is the Lead Coordinating Agency of the project in Eastern Africa and Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda is a Co-Host of the KCOA-KHEA Project.

The implementation of Phase I and II of the Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Eastern Africa (KHEA) Project started in August 2019 and ended in January 2025. The KCOA-KHEA Project aligns with the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I), an African Union-led continental undertaking with the oversight of the African Union Commission (AUC) Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment (DARBE)

Countries Implementing the KCOA-KHEA Project

KHEA is currently being implemented in Implementing Partners (CIPs) as follows:Kenya; PELUM Kenya, Uganda; PELUM Uganda, Rwanda; ROAM, Tanzania; TOAM and Madagascar; GSDM and SYMABIO. 

Overall Goal of KHEA

The overall goal of the KHEA Project is to ensure that Ecological Organic Agriculture is integrated into the various countries’ agricultural systems

About the Digital Knowledge Platform

One of the key project achievements has been the development of the Digital Knowledge Platform (DKP) which is part of the KCOA Project coordinated by GIZ as a major component of the initiative.
This online resource currently provides excellent learning materials and resources for multipliers, farmers and other value chain actors. The DKP was launched in the Phase II of the KCOA-KHEA Project

STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS OF INTERVENTION

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 contexts of the countries participating in the Eastern Africa regional Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture, have been disseminated to many users.

Networking within the Organic Agriculture Value Chains: 

Key actors in the organic agriculture value chains of the participating countries in Eastern Africa have networked in an exemplary manner to strengthen markets and consumption patterns for organic products.

With these interventions, farmers will have access to relevant information and trainings in areas of production for both crops and animals as well as markets within the context of organic farming. This, will help them improve their livelihoods and benefit from farming

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