Author: David Indeje

Western Kenya region residents depend on agriculture for their livelihood, yet sector inefficiency is widespread across the region and the rest of the country. Farmers cannot access reliable markets, buyers cannot access reliable markets, source adequate quantities of produce and intermediaries cannot cost-effectively provide services.   The end result is supply chain disorganization that depresses household income, increased food insecurity and hinders business development.   Enhancing inclusive and sustainable current agricultural information systems in different value chains and information needs that would promote development in domestic horticulture are needed to unleash agricultural potential.   Strengthening agriculture especially domestic horticulture is…

“How does change happen?This is perhaps one of those eternal questionsthat carries both simplicityand depths of complexityjuxtaposed in a tensionso bright and dark thatemotions explode and identities blur.Is your belief defined by your roleor is your role defined by your belief?How does change happen?”These are the opening lines of a poem by TIG’s Executive Director, Jennifer Corriero, written during the COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen the year 2010.African Youth “Tomorrow you shall go everywhere to study, to learn a speciality, and to get to know the world. Workers, working people will have an equal share in these study missions. You…

Much more must be done to ensure everyone understands the benefits of using a treated mosquito net to ensure preventable disease, malaria, is a long-gone case. Despite the high birth rate, most people do not buy more than one mosquito net due to cost.  Three years ago, in rural Matulo Village in Webuye District, the situation was so dire as the only persons who use the mosquito net are parents. This is despite the mass media awareness campaigns mounted by various organizations like Population Services International (PSI) which are partnering with media organizations such as West FM in a door-to-door campaign.  PSI’s…

The media construction of reality is not a unilateral process exclusively performed by Television media and political actors that shapes and conditions the citizens. Political agenda and influences the information of public opinion and various peripheral spaces administered by civil society, that seek to influence from the edges, the institutional definition of reality. We constantly compare the media version with our subjective individual reality based on accumulated knowledge, interpersonal interactions and past experiences. Therefore, we are consumers of meanings, chiefly those circulated by media organizations on which a greater or lesser extent we cognitively depend but, at the same time,…

My greatest inspiration always comes from my daddy.  At one time, he said to me, “Personally, it seems like I have failed my family. I look at the many projects that I begun, but it seems the results are not like what I had discerned to be like.” Being of one of his eldest children, among five, I was with my sister. Dad’s businesses were not doing fine. Everyone, Mum, dad, sister and I were all trying to help in the little way possible to bring all things back to course. Yes, I agree some of the problems affecting the…

Mashujaa (Heroes) Day, formerly Kenyatta Day, on October 20. It is going to be the third national day celebrated under our new Constitution, which recognizes only two other national days on the calendar Jamhuri Day and Madaraka Day.Today marks a great milestone to us Kenyans. A day our country is being reborn, a day that inspires by the opportunities that will make each day afford us to wake-up and live another day striving to reach our goals as a nation.Goals that will make us make strides, in our social, political and economic endeavors; Strides that will raise our education standards…