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Agriculture Water
Management: An Essential Solution to
Poverty in Africa
John Kihia,
Country Director, Kenya
8th April 2010
• 70% of the population live in rural areas as small scale farmers
• ½ to 5 acres per family is common
• Struggling in cash/market economies
True Nature of Agriculture in Africa
• Not enough food to feed family
• Other sources of income scarce
• Perceived as a problem
• Are they really a problem?
• Have access to land
• Have basic skills and labour available
• Industrious and Innovative
Smallholder Farmers
• Entrepreneurial, willing to invest time and energy
• Motivation to succeed, ready to use whatever they have to look after their families
• In aggregate: There is massive reservoir of unrecognized, unexploited capital in form of social/human (not financial) waiting for a practical opportunity – A Sleeping Giant
• Costs? Risk? Returns?
Facts
• Huge Agricultural potential
But
Closer look at Africa
• Terrible Food Shortage
Famine / Malnutrition
Yet
• 40% produce wasted
So What is Wrong?
•Seeds
•Soil fertility
•Knowledge/Skills
A List of things has been identified
•Post harvest storage
•Local Value adding
•Finance / Credit
•Information about Markets
•Access to Markets
•Infrastructure
•Regulations
•Cooperatives/Associations
Fact
•Only 4.9% of Agriculture in Africa is
irrigated, the rest is rainfed
•Some parts – 2 rainy cycles/year
•Most parts – 1 rainy cycle/year
Feast & Famine Cycle: Supply CurveFood Production Feast
Time
Food Production
Famine
Feast & Famine Cycle: DemandFood Production Feast
Demand
Time
Food Production
Famine
Demand
Effect of Increasing Rainfed Production!Food Production
Feast
Time
Food Production
Famine
Demand
If Water is Available all year:
• Supply and demand is aligned
Need to AddWater!!
• 3 – 5 crops per year
• Can plant high value vs. drought resistant
- more produce all the time
Irrigated Production Aligns Supply & DemandFood Production
Demand
Supply
Time
Food Production
Demand
KickStart International Inc.
KickStart International is a social enterprise developing small
scale businesses in Africa
Mission
Economic Growth . Employment . Wealth Creation
Operates
Country programs: Kenya, Tanzania, Mali & Burkina Faso
B2B: 18 Sub Saharan Countries
KickStart’s StrategyWork like a business, not like a charity
1) Identify Profitable Business Opportunities
2) Design the Required Capital Equipment
3) Establish Supply Chain: manufacture, distribute and work with dealer networkdistribute and work with dealer network
4) Develop the Market: advertise, promote
5) Impact Assessment
6) Exit Marketing Support
& Continuous Impact Monitoring
Super MoneyMaker Pump• Manually operated
• Two-cylinder
• Foot operated
• High performance
MoneyMaker Irrigation Pump
MoneyMaker Hip Pump• Manually operated
• Low-cost
• Light weight
• Portable
Felix
• Was earning US $40/month
• Bought a pump and returned to his village
• Now making US $ 1,000/month
• Felix and his wife employ 3 people full-time & 10 during harvest
• Now spends 10 times as much as he did before on:
– Seeds
– Fertilizers
– Agro-chemicals
Felix: Not an isolated case
By end February 2010:
• Over 144,000 pumps out there
• At least 88,600 “Felixes” using them• At least 88,600 “Felixes” using them
• Over 443,000 people out of poverty
• Together they are generating over
US$ 88.6 Million annually
Africa’s Potential
•The Challenge is tough but it can
be met!
Africa
13 -15
Million
• Africa’s population is growing (1.5 billion by 2050)
• Need more and more food, all the time! Irrigation is
essential
•Potential users for MoneyMaker pumps estimated to be
13 - 15 million families in SSA
THANK YOU