SNV Netherlands: [VIDEO] Biofit Case Study
Biofit Agritech Enterprises uses Water Hyacinth, an invasive species in Lake Victoria, to produce animal feeds. A truly innovative climate-smart practice.
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France24: [VIDEO] Could Lake Victoria’s water hyacinth invasion have a silver lining?
For decades, water hyacinth has been wreaking havoc on Lake Victoria in Kenya, covering vast swathes of its surface. The plant blocks out light, dramatically reducing the ...
Sahara Tribune: Turning Lake Victoria water hyacinth into healthy animal feed
Shiny, well-piled bales of dried water hyacinth welcome you to Biofit production plant at Kendu Bay, Homa Bay County.
Biofit is an agribusiness enterprise, focusing o...
Sankalp Africa Summit 2018 Spurs Innovation and Investment
The Feed the Future East Africa Catalytic Sustainable Agribusiness Investment project (CSAI), funded by USAID and implemented by SNV, along with its partners Climate...
KenyaCIC: Converting the water hyacinth menace into animal feed
It is debated how exactly the water hyacinth plant came to Lake Victoria, but evidence suggests it arrived due to human activity in the 1980s. Given that it is not native ...
Xinhuanet: Kenyan youth converting Lake Victoria’s hyacinth into animal feed
Young entrepreneurs from Homa Bay County in Western Kenya have ventured into animal feeds manufacturing using water hyacinth that has covered almost three-quarters of Lake...
Farmbiz Africa: Water hyacinth turned to animal feed
In offering farmers a cheap animal meal while dealing with the menace of the hyacinth, Homa Bay youths are manufacturing a ‘universal’ feed from the weed that is threa...
