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• • Platform for Land Use Sustainability - PLUS-Kenya is a registered NGO promoting innovations for sustainable land use management. Also home to The Vetiver Network International (TVNI). Training about Vetiver Grass Technology and supplying quality slips.

  • Training, facilitation and demonstrating solutions for sustainable land use management. Several of these solutions include the Vetiver System Technology, Permaculture, Regenerative agriculture, Food forest, etc.

  • We train communities on using simple techniques like Vetiver Grass System (Chrysopogon zizanioides) for rehabilitating Gullies, mines, degraded landscapes, ground cover regeneration, and ground water recharge: Vetiver when planted on contours across slopes; it forms a protective barrier that slows runoff water causing sediment to be deposited. Since the barriers only filter the runoff and do not convey it, water seeps through the hedge, reaching the bottom of the slope at lower velocity without causing any erosion. This is known as the flow-through system. By slowing down runoff water, the hedges formed by grass also enable the water to soak into the ground and replenish underwater tables. Since new roots develop from nodes when buried by trapped sediment, vetiver grass continues to rise with the new ground level. The sediment deposits around the grass usually contain seeds of local plants washed down from elsewhere and the sediment deposit facilitates the re-establishment of such plants, increasing vegetative cover. Planting vetiver grass together with tree seedlings creates a protective hedge to a young tree against erosion destruction beside removing toxins from the soils and increasing nutrients that the young tree needs for rapid growth.

  • Working hand in hand as a team promoting and training on VS applications starting with propagation, on-farm hedge establishment for soil and water conservation, gully rehabilitation, and as a bio-engineering tool in infrastructure protection. We have trained and introduced healthy Vetiver nurseries in driest areas of Kenya (arid and semi-arid) like Kilifi, Voi, Pokot, Turkana, Marsabit, etc. We have set up nurseries and trained communities in neighboring Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.

  • PLUS-Kenya is home to The Vetiver Network International (TVNI). http://vetiver.org An NGO Registered in USA, active in +120 countries: highly professional, open-source knowledge network that has researched on the Vetiver System, now overseeing, training and certifying experts on VS applications all over the world, including Kenya. We are certified trainers and suppliers.