{"id":248196,"date":"2026-10-26T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-agroecology-can-raise-kenyan-farmers-profits-by-37-8pc-actionaid-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:00:21","slug":"kenya-agroecology-can-raise-kenyan-farmers-profits-by-37-8pc-actionaid-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-agroecology-can-raise-kenyan-farmers-profits-by-37-8pc-actionaid-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Agroecology Can Raise Kenyan Farmers&#8217; Profits By 37.8pc, Actionaid Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan farmers could increase profits by an average of 37.8 per cent by adopting agroecological farming practices that reduce spending on synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, according to a new ActionAid International report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The report, Transforming Food Systems in Africa &#8211; The Case for Investing in Agroecology, says practices such as composting, recycling organic waste and using natural pest-control methods can lower production costs while improving soil health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The findings are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610260198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan farmers could increase profits by an average of 37.8 per cent by adopting agroecological farming practices that reduce spending on synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, according to a new ActionAid International report. The report, Transforming Food Systems in Africa &#8211; The Case for Investing in Agroecology, says practices such as composting, recycling organic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[55712,12306,258,256,46248,3030,13869,4688,430,4524,257,10139,6758,5144,254],"class_list":["post-248196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-37-8pc","tag-actionaid","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agroecology","tag-farmers","tag-finds","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-profits","tag-raise","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}