Urban Agriculture and Food Security in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

This report examines the stabilization of agriculture through urban farming within the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, focusing on enhancing ecological and social resilience for communities facing adverse conditions. It highlights the benefits of implementing urban agriculture and agroforestry, including improved food security, community growth, and efficient land use. Key stakeholders such as local people, the government, and refugees are identified, and strategies for planning and designing effective urban agriculture programs are discussed, emphasizing strategic frameworks, technology, and local support. The report also addresses potential challenges and the role of the Food Security Cluster in coordinating food security efforts during humanitarian crises. Furthermore, it explores the scale of intervention for growing crops, including suitable technologies and the adoption of various crop species like avocado. Ultimately, the report concludes that urban agriculture can empower residents of Kakuma Refugee Camp to earn a livelihood and contribute to local markets, offering a pathway to overcome food insecurity, as supported by initiatives from UNHCR and WFP.

The stabilization agriculture

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Benefits of implementing urban agriculture and agroforestry inside a forced displacement setting
 Different stakeholders
 How can programmes be planned and designed to integrate
 Possible challenges
 Food security cluster
 Scale of intervention for growing crops
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Stabilise agriculture can be described as focus that enhance
ecological as well as social resilience of agricultural
communities that withstand as well as respond to adverse
condition in a countries and affected through disasters,
complex emergencies as well as ranging from different
climate event to conflicts. In this, these agree culture
program is implemented in kakuma refugee camp in Kenya.

Benefits of implementing urban agriculture and agroforestry inside a forced
displacement setting
Urban farming can be described as growing, distribution as well as processing of food or
livestock in specific urban centre with aim of generating income. Urban farming improve lives of
community as well as farmer. It create various benefits for forced displacement setting which are
mentioned below:
 Enhance food security
 Growing communities
 Efficient use of land
 Proximity

Different stakeholders
There are various stakeholder who is involved in a project and create impact over different
activities of project. In this project, main stakeholders are local people, government as well
as refugees. Explanation about these stakeholders are mentioned below:
 Local people
 Government
 Refugees

How can programmes be planned and
designed to integrate
For planning and designing of urban agriculture, it is important for people of
community of follow certain points which are mentioned below:
 Strategic and planning framework
 Technology
 Support from local people and government authorities

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Possible challenges
Stabilization agriculture refers to the process to enhance the social resilience and ecology of
agricultural community of members of Kakuma refugee camp in response to critical
conditions due to complex emergencies, climate disasters and many more in a country. The
members of Kakuma refugee camp face many challenges to implement the camp of
stabilisation agriculture. First they find difficulties to make better plan and strategies for the
implementation. All the members have not much knowledge about the concept and process of
stabilisation agriculture.

Food security cluster
Food security cluster has been formed to make coordination with food security and give
response in the time of humanitarian crisis, determining problems related with food access,
availability and utilisation. To solve the problems in implementing the camp the members of
Food Security Cluster viewed the whole report of camp and their challenges. They provide
various help to encourage the organisation to provide food services to the needy people
during crises.

Scale of intervention for growing crops
There are different types of technological institutional as well as policy options
are applicable in different content. Different types of technologies are suitable
for different things and can be adopted by different farmers that is also
influenced through rainfall pattern, soil type, crop livestock, altitude, soil type
and others. It is important to identify criteria that is biophysical, social
economic as well as institutional criteria that influence suitability as well as
adoption of technology.

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Different species of crops
Avocado: It is one of crop that can be grow by a person easily in
urban agriculture as well as even from home. Trees of avocado
can be grown up to 80 feet in indoor gardening and also look for
dwarf varieties. It is a crop that allow a person to be able to plant
it and sale it later in market.