Kenya: New partnership to unlock credit financing for small scale farmers launched

Throughout her farming career, Jane Owino she has planted recycled seeds from the previous year’s harvest. However, for as long as she can remember, the 47 year old farmer in Western Kenya has never posted any profits from her labours. Year in and year out, she prepares her farm diligently and plants the seeds on time but she knows that she is at the mercy of increasingly unpredictable seasons and when the rains fail her harvest is in jeopardy.