KENAFF FF & AP – KENAFF Farm Forestry and Afforestation Programme (2021-2030)

KENYA NATIONAL FARM FORESTRY and AFFORESTATION PROGRAMME (KENAFF FF & AP) 2021-2030

KENAFF plants the right trees in the right place for the right reasons.

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

The KENAFF Farm Forestry and Afforestation Programme, 2021 – 2030, has been conceptualized, developed and shall be implemented by KENAFF over ten (10) years.

Originally conceived in May 2019; it is meant to support the government of Kenya’s Regreening Kenya Initiative; and the target to achieve 10% forest cover by December, 2022; contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically Goal 13: Climate Action, and is as a strategy through which Kenyan farmers contribute to climate action as envisaged under the Paris Agreement, specifically to; contribute to mitigation (Article 4) and conserve and enhance sinks and reservoirs for greenhouse gas emissions (Article 5).

It is also timely: COP 26 resolved this is the time for action and delivery; not promises. KENAFF believes that the only pathway for Kenya to achieve these goals is for farmers to be engaged in the planting and nurturing of trees. Indeed, the government alone on public land would not accomplish these goals.

PROGRAMME GOALS

The programme’s development objective, enhancing the incomes and livelihoods of Kenyan smallholder farmers through tree value chains is premised on the mutualism between agriculture and forestry. The overall goals include:

(i) encourage farmers to allocate at least 15 percent of their agricultural landholdings for farm forestry, conservation of agrobiodiversity, re-forestation, and reclamation of degraded landscapes to slow down the impact of climate change globally over the next 10 years (2021 – 2030) and in perpetuity, and

(ii) build farmers’ capacity on soil and water conservation and train smallholder farmers (including women, the youth and farmers living with disabilities) on the importance of establishing and developing sustainable tree value chains for economic, environmental, and food and nutrition security among other benefits.

SPECIFIC GOALS

(i) promote tree value chains among farmers through capacity building on farm forestry and tree value chain development;
(ii) support tree nursery establishment and development by the KENAFF Youth Council as well as the KENAFF Women Council;

(iii) promote fodder bulking as an adaptation mechanism for livestock-based livelihoods in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs);
(iv) enhance protection and reclamation of the commons;

(v) establish and strengthen experiential learning and modeling;
(vi) enhance business case development for trade in tree and tree products, and

(vii) develop and implement payment of ecosystem services (PES) initiatives for the social, economic, and environmental benefits of carbon sequestration; and the practice of related services; including apiculture, aquaculture, agrotourism, and biogas technologies.