Lead organisation: Inclusive Small Firms Africa (ISFA) and Boma Ikolojia
ISFA and Boma Ikolojia collaborated with local stakeholders in the western region by integrating Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), pasture/ hay/ pasture seed production, beekeeping, and honey processing and marketing. ISFA will cover 70% of the costs for beehives and honey strainers, while participants will contribute the remaining 30% from their honey sales as an innovative way of reducing participants’ over-dependence. Environmental impact includes landscapes and biodiversity restoration, while socio-economic impact includes food/ nutrition/ income security achieved through pasture and honey sales.
FMNR is a nature-positive agricultural solution that involves systematically regrowing trees from fallen tree stumps, sprouting root systems, or seeds. It restores soil structure and fertility, inhibits erosion, rehabilitates springs and water tables, increases biodiversity, tree cover, and provides fuelwood, and animal feeds during droughts.
Inclusive Small Firms Africa (ISFA) has been selected as one of the RAIN bridge fund recipients. Bridge funding supports selected projects to sustain and build on their work during 2026. This funding is intended to provide a strategic bridge between the original RAIN award and future pathways for scale, influence, or longer-term financing. Bridge funding now supports the expansion of the project to additional groups, introducing fruit and fodder trees, improved pasture systems, and water and soil conservation practices.