Equator Kenia Ltd.
KENIA

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ALMUT VAN CASTEREN

Managing Director
Equator Kenya LTD
Equator Kenya Ltd, a food-processing company that produces African Bird's Eye Chilies for export, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide climate-smart technologies, training and market linkages to 8,000 smallholder farmers along the Kenyan coast. This inclusive business is designed to reduce the crop risks posed by climate change, which will sustainably increase incomes among the farmers (6,000 of whom are women) as well as improve crop yields and quality.

HOW WE WORK

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Our initiative is a low-cost water-efficient drip irrigation kit: Equator offers farmers the opportunity to purchase the kits on credit at subsidized prices. Since 2014, more than 1,500 farmers have acquired these kits, increasing production by 54 percent on average while significantly improving quality by eliminating water stress. Drip irrigation has also allowed farmers to produce chilies for ten months of the year (compared to between four and five months previously), creating year-round income.

MEET OUR FARMERS

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You can find our farmer areas below on the map

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OUR CERTIFICATES

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THE PATH OF IMPROVEMENT

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Equator aims to distribute an additional 8,000 kits, coupled with environmentally sustainable blended fertilizers and bio-pesticides, by the end of 2020. It will also provide marketing and sales training to more than 100 women entrepreneurs, and create ten new full-time jobs also for women in the company's water filter production facility.

WHAT WE OFFER

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NEWS

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NAIROBI WEATHER
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CREDITS

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Footage :
Kenia from the Air
Scott Sporleder, Ross Borden