CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

Man doesn't work, only woman works

Man has leeway to do other things, other business, support farming

Large scale farmers creas about only making their profits. No ownership from multinationals who have lots of power

Utilize GMOs for high quality and durable maize for aflatoxin

Agricultural standards are imported and don't fit for the kenyan context

Cooperation with multinationals

Farmers, processors, middleman & transporters, are all mixing the aflatoxin seeds/cereal/maize with good quality ones (+1)

Speed of the harvesting, packaging & storing process is crucial to prevent aflatoxin

70% of kenyans depend on agriculture (+2)

Even small investment possibly leads to big gains in the long-term perspective.

People trust their experience rather than the truth or new technology or news or weather forecast

Transparency in value chain is crucial

Only aflatoxin in maize is known to the public

Trust formation is very challenging, resulting in the difficulty of microfinance

Large coorporations come to improve for small amount of rich groups, increasing inequality

Multi-agency approach? Kabs/Nema/Farmers Abs/Consumers Ass/Academia/

Everything is expensive, including new agricultural equipments, aflatoxin equipment

Proactive joint grassroot effort to drive sustainable innovation

Market is not ready for high quality standards, they focus on increasing sufficiency

Education to small farmers villages (Small farmers don't have strategy: plant any time of year, no irrigation, farming on their own) (+1)

No documentation for the whole value chain

Better quality feed demand, which is durable and high-growth

Quality is less paid attention to, rather than costs

Quality testing of maize based on colour/smell/fee/hear experience (+1)

Climate change causes an uncertain future and further challenges

Middle scale farmers learn agricultural practice and problem-solving from internet

Supply chain runs from proor to proor and rich to rich separetly

Farmers / Consumers want to know more about aflatoxin

No resources to think about long-term growth

Government uses taxes better, creating policy and give support to small farmers

Using binders is known practice however not implemented in feed production standard (Expensive)

M-pesa: Most transactions are to move money from the city to rural areas

Money is everything. Money decides behaviour everythings

Reduce inequality in technology to test aflatoxin for better quality control (+2)

Ministry of agriculture seems not active and not control

Price incentives for Better Quality foods

Need to educate KEBS to use the equipment, structure the testing & enforcement of penalties

Labtests are crucial to make high quality food. (Equipment unaffordable for local businesses land or lakes)

Political interest in keeping poor farmers poor

Moisture should be tested at mills & processors before processing anything

Even middle farmers don't test aflatoxin to control

Raising awareness about aflatoxin seems viable solution

Knowledge transfer from middle, large scale farmers to small scale farmers

The academic institute could issues certificate of aflatoxin testing

Emporwing BOP to form trust in home villages, increasing programmes to lead revolution

Take a look at the storage throughout the whole chain

Many stakeholders could test aflatoxin possibly

Maize transportation, import/export policy control quality

People want to have knowledge about agricultural practice

Incentives for producing good quality and safe maize and dairy meat (+3)

How to simplify the aflatoxin machine

Aflatoxin accumulation reduces within a few months when stopping cosuming aflatoxin

Education game of agricultural practice in phone can be solution

Small farmers visit at middle farmers to learn agricultural practice (+1)

Middle scale farmers directly sell their milk to their consumers, making more profit