Musdalafa Lyaga

Kitchen gardens and healthy cooking have become all the rage in many parts of the world to help increase safe consumption. The therapeutic effect  of working kitchen gardens can also help improve on mental health.

Musdalafa Lyaga is an award winning Food Journalist producing farmer radio and video features to help improve awareness and knowledge of sustainable agricultural practices and technologies, strengthen the link between researchers, extension workers and farmers in order to enhance food

Manure from livestock contains many important nutrients that are vital for plant growth. In this video, Musdalafa Lyaga visits farmers in Western Kenya to learn more on how to maintain the quality and get maximum benefits of animal manure.

A woman entrepreneur from Kenya shares her experiences keeping dairy cows. She talks to Kilimo Hai Radio producer Musdalafa Lyaga on how she started dairy farming, challenges she has been facing keeping dairy cows and what has kept her going.

A youth movement in Kenya reinventing the garden of Eden

Goats are deeply embedded in almost every African culture and are true friends to the rural farmers because they are a means of survival and a way of boosting incomes.

Financial literacy helps farmers like Anna Muleli…….Rhoda Mumbua...and Mutuku Musau gain knowledge to diversify their livelihoods in the harsh region of Kenya’s Ukambani by strengthening resilience against external shocks and enabling them to enhance their productive potential.

In tropical Africa these shiny, black, slender and small-winged insects causes damage and distortion to cowpea through feeding on leaves, fruits or petals. Grain yield losses of between 20 and 100% have been reported caused by Legume flower thrips on cowpea from different parts of Africa.

Can ensete insure Africa against food shortages?

Many farmers in Africa rely on maize as a staple food. Maize farming comes with challenges of striga weed, stemborer, soil fertility, and most recently fall army worms. It is the duty of the farmers who know of a solution to share with other farmers.

"Dawa", a hot drink made from locally sourced honey, ginger and lemon has become a trendy drink in Kenya’s urban centres. Apart from Dawa, honey is used in so many ways in daily life.

Young minds have the ability to retain knowledge and skills learnt in childhood, and use them later to offer solutions to existing problems.