Kenya's 'soil doctors' are learning to read the land — and teaching their neighbours

Agness Munialo, a farmer in Kakamega county, used to add more and more fertiliser hoping for a bigger harvest. 'Now we know better,' she says. Through SoilFER, a programme run by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization with Kenya's agricultural research organisation KALRO, more than 3,600 soil samples have been collected and mapped across 45 counties, with results sent straight to farmers' phones. Selected farmers are trained as 'soil doctors' who diagnose tired soil and teach their peers — and three renovated laboratories now back them up with proper analysis.

SDG 2 · Zero hunger — Mechanism: institutional program