Who We Are
Kilimo Trust (KT) is a not-for-profit organization working on agriculture for development across the East Africa community – in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. Kilimo Trust is a go to implementing partner for inclusive and sustainable market-led agricultural value chain development in the region.
We began operations in 2005 with a strong focus on managing grants—over USD 13 million, disbursed through 50 projects that strengthened agricultural value chains and built the capacity of small holder farmers. Leveraging our experience and expertise in value chains transformation, in 2011, we transitioned to a direct implementer to be better able to serve the region’s small holder farmers and other agricultural value chain actors in helping them become key players in local, national, and regional value chains.
Our vision is to see “sustained and equitable wealth creation, food and nutrition security for smallholder farmers and other VC actors”. The mission is to make agri-business a transformative tool for wealth creation, food and nutrition security for smallholder farmers and other VC actors. Rooted in private and public sector based partnerships. We design our interventions in an integrated way so as to reach and effectively serve as many small holder farmers and other value chain actors as much possible for each dollar spent.
What drives us
We see the East African Common Market and COMESA, as key opportunities for achieving higher security in food, nutrition and incomes. Therefore, we work on expansion of trade, in food commodities and their value added products, across borders and across agro-eco-regions.
