We mobilize grassroots resources, build local capacities, and deploy innovative agricultural technologies to empower smallholder farmers, youth, and women across Siaya County.
Maize planting
Supported by Our Strategic Partners & Government Agencies
The Siaya Agriculture and Food Systems Network (SAFSN-CBO) is a registered Community-Based Organization based in Yala Town, Gem Sub-County. We bridge the gap between scientific agricultural research, climate-adaptive technologies, and smallholder farming collectives.
To mobilize grassroots resources, build agronomic capacity, and deploy affordable green technologies that elevate household incomes and protect Siaya’s fragile agro-ecosystems.
Our constitution guarantees that at least 60% of all executive seats, grant capital, and equipment are awarded to women, youth, and persons living with disabilities.
Solar Drip Irrigation & Seed Hubs
Executive Chairperson
Passionate community organizer and champion for smallholder women farmers in Gem Sub-County with several years experience in the agricultural space.
Governance, Policy and Advocacy
Fred Nyabera Abayo holds a degree in Applied Community Development and brings extensive experience in sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, and grassroots advocacy. He is dedicated to collaborative problem solving and empowering smallholder farmers, women, youth, and vulnerable community members across sustainable land management initiatives.
Our interventions are systematically structured across eight interconnected sectors to transform subsistence agriculture into profitable, climate-adaptive enterprises.
Equipping smallholder farmers with drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, drought-tolerant seeds, and soil regenerative practices.
Transitioning rural youth and women into profitable agribusinesses via modern poultry, apiculture, and horticulture.
Distributing modern Langstroth beehives, improved indigenous poultry, and dairy goats to market-oriented farming groups.
Reducing crop and produce waste via low-cost solar dryers, hermetic storage bags, and digital aggregation centres.
Establishing bio-intensive kitchen gardens and sack gardens in households and schools to boost micronutrient diversity.
Equipping irrigation groups with solar-powered water pumps and solar drying systems to cut diesel costs.
Ensuring equitable participation by allocating 60% of all leadership, assets, and seed capital to Women, Youth, and PWDs.
Installing solar-powered water purification hubs and handwashing points at open-air food markets and fish landing sites.
We break the persistent cycle of rural poverty through a structured, stage-gated financial inclusion pipeline. By integrating table banking with seed capital and collective marketing, we de-risk agricultural value chains for vulnerable producers.
Before receiving farm assets, beneficiary cohorts are grouped into Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). They undergo intensive training on savings mobilization, group dynamics, record-keeping, and table banking governance.
Verified VSLAs with compliant attendance and savings discipline receive 1:1 or 2:1 matching interest-free seed capital to bootstrap collective poultry, modern apiculture, or horticulture production.
Farmers apply climate-adaptive techniques through our peer-learning hubs. Production is synchronized across the ward and aggregated into community collection points to meet commercial scale.
By aggregating volume, vulnerable farmers gain collective bargaining power to bypass predatory middlemen and sign direct, guaranteed off-take contracts with regional institutional buyers.
Estimate the revolving capital injection and projected seasonal harvest revenue your registered group can unlock through SAFSN’s Agri-Inclusion Fund.
Groups with ≥60% women/youth/PWD membership qualify for 1.5x matching grant.
*Figures are projections based on seasonal field data from Gem-Yala pilot clusters and are subject to verification during committee appraisal.
We operate with uncompromising structural and financial transparency to foster radical trust among farmers, community elders, county partners, and international donors.
Real stories of agricultural transformation, VSLA success, and climate-smart innovation across Gem-Yala and Siaya County.
Discover how replacing costly diesel pumps with decentralized solar irrigation has tripled vegetable harvests for women self-help groups along the Yala River basin.
A deep dive into how Village Savings and Loan Associations unlock dignity, financial inclusion, and collective bargaining for vulnerable rural households.
How youth groups in Gem are adopting modern Langstroth beehives to generate high-value organic honey while safeguarding local biodiversity.
Whether you are a farming self-help group seeking VSLA integration, a county extension partner, or a donor organization exploring high-impact community investments in Siaya, we welcome your inquiry.
Direct chat with Secretariat Coordinator
Gem-Yala Sub-County, Siaya County, Kenya
Our secretariat team responds to all inquiries within 24–48 business hours.