Tharaka Nithi civil society group Friends of Mother Nature promotes briquette use as alternative fuel in central Kenya
The group members identified poverty and lack of environmental awareness as key drivers of deforestation in the area saying while they have been conducting community education on conservation and entrepreneurship, access to affordable cooking fuel remains a challenge for many households.
Kenya’s Lake Basin Development Authority plans to ramp up rice production by reducing cost and sidestepping brokers
The authority’s Kibos Rice Mill, which has been in full operation for one year, he said, can mill between three and 4.5 tonnes of paddy per hour. But to avoid stifling private businesses, LBDA, he said, has been passing excess paddy to local millers after taking them through KEBS quality standards.
