Check out datalocal.info, a web site through which we share our experiences working on citizen-generated data projects since September 2015. Through datalocal.info, we seek to showcase our frank reflections of the programmes – what worked, what did not work, what did we learn, what do we now know about Citizen Generated Data.

Agriculture and food production is at the heart of Kenya’s economy. In our work with communities, we have found that farmers are struggling to make a living despite having access to large tracts of fertile land and potentially, the whole world for a market. More to the point, agricultural products like maize, sugar and rice have in the recent past seen such bad management, that farmers are now losing hope.

Al Kags recently spoke to a policeman, who is a farmer in Western Kenya who gave a concise story about it. We share here notes of that conversation as well as things that we have learnt, working with farming communities in Nakuru Counties.