Beekeeping and honey value addition
In the drylands where crops and livestock struggle with unreliable rain, beekeeping offers a resilient livelihood. SACEP Kenya supports beekeepers and farmer groups along the whole honey value chain — from healthy hives to processed, packaged and market-ready honey.
What we do
- Training in modern, appropriate and sustainable beekeeping practices
- Access to quality beehives, protective equipment and harvesting tools
- Community honey collection and processing facilities
- Value addition: hygienic handling, filtering, packaging, branding and labelling
- Linking producers to shops, supermarkets, institutions and other buyers
- Indigenous tree planting and conservation of bee-forage plants
- Stronger farmer cooperatives and community-owned agribusiness enterprises
The real income sits beyond the farm gate. Raw honey sold cheap earns little; processed, packaged and branded honey attracts customers, builds consumer confidence and returns better prices — with women and youth earning from processing, packaging, marketing and distribution.
Beekeeping is climate-smart: it complements other dryland enterprises, diversifies household income, and pays communities to protect the indigenous trees and habitats that pollinators depend on. Healthy bees, thriving ecosystems and stronger enterprises go together.
Read the full story in our feature: The Golden Harvest of Tharaka.
Who we work with
- Beekeepers and aspiring beekeeping households
- Farmer groups and cooperatives building a honey enterprise
- Women and youth in processing, packaging and marketing
- Community enterprises developing collective brands