Regenerative Agriculture
Terracing, cover cropping and reduced-tillage training for farms on the forest edge.
Most pressure on water towers comes from farms pushing uphill for more land. We train farm households bordering gazetted forest in terracing, cover cropping, and intercropping with fodder trees — practices that raise yield per acre so the pressure to clear more forest eases.
Projects using this approach
Elgeyo-Marakwet
ActiveSpencer Line Restoration
Community-led restoration and improved landscape management along the Spencer Line, Kerio Valley, Elgeyo-Marakwet Escarpment.
42 / 220 hectares restored
Baringo
ActiveChemususu Catchment
Farms ringing the Chemususu Dam catchment, where soil washing off hillside plots was silting the reservoir that supplies Eldoret town.
38 / 90 hectares restored
Trans Nzoia
ActiveMt Elgon Lower Slopes
School tree clubs and farm-edge terracing on Mt Elgon's lower reaches, feeding a steadier Nzoia River through the maize belt below.
61 / 100 hectares restored