The Nuru Collective came together once again for its annual virtual summit on January 23-24, 2023. This event brought together over fifty collective team members from around the world for a time of reflection, celebration, and planning for the year ahead.
Team members from across the Nuru Collective
During the Nuru Collective Summit, each locally-led organization shared their successes, their challenges, and their goals for 2023 and beyond. Our organizations have witnessed farmers increasing their crop yields and incomes to begin charting a path out of extreme poverty. Nuru cooperatives are becoming increasingly professional, and communities are improving their food systems. All these achievements were made amid the ongoing impacts of a global pandemic, rising inflation that impacted everything from the cost of seeds to the cost of fuel, and both local and global instabilities.
Last year, Nuru Kenya launched a new livelihoods intervention activity in Baringo County: beekeeping. Pictured: Nuru Kenya staff with Tiaty Women Honey and Cultural Development Cooperative members.
As a collective, Nuru has impacted over 250,000 people in its 14-year history. Initial efforts that began with a few hundred farmer families in Migori County, Kenya, have now grown to reach farmers across three additional countries: Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso. During 2022, Nuru launched new partnerships, expanded into new countries and regions, and continued to adapt and improve its programming to better serve farmer cooperatives and their members.
Nuru Ethiopia facilitated experience-sharing among farmer union leaders last year. Pictured: Nuru Ethiopia staff and union cooperative leaders at an experience-sharing event hosted by Nuru Ethiopia.
Last year, Nuru Burkina Faso launched its programming, establishing farming demonstration (demo) plots and registering its first 1,000 farmers. Pictured: Nuru Burkina Faso team members and farmers working on a demonstration plot.
As a collective, we are grateful for the lessons learned during 2022, and we’re excited about the new opportunities we will have in 2023 as we continue scaling to new regions while continuing to sustain impact for Nuru farmers.