This week, the United Nations will officially adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – an ambitious set of targets that will shape international development programmes all over the worl...
With Series 5 drawing to a close on TV this week (haven’t seen the new series yet? Head over to our website to see series 5 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) it hardly means work in the Shamba Sha...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/filming-series-6-in-kenya/
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World? : Image courtesy of at FreeDigitalPhotos.net What if what we thought to be true about African agriculture was wrong? So often we ...
Over the past five series, the Shamba Shape Up team has been visiting farms across the East African region to meet farmers who are in need of practical agricultural advice. The show, which was th...
Today, Thursday 12th August, is International Youth Day. Kenya is a very young country so this is especially relevant for us; did you know that an astonishing 42% of Kenya’s population i...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/international-youth-day/
Having finished filming in Embu, the team headed on to Kikuyu, a small town on the outskirts of Nairobi, to meet farmer Samuel Kamau whose shamba was in need serious need of a shape up! Samuel ha...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/filming-in-kikuyu-kenya/
While filming on a farm in Limuru, Kenya for another episode of the new series, we came across one of the fastest milkers we had ever seen on our travels! The farmer, who owned over 30 cows and a...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/08/05/man-made-milking-machine/
It is with so much excitement that Shamba Shape Up can announce that Belle, the resident Jersey cow, has had her calf! The boy, who has been named Graccus, was born on Saturday last week, quickly...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/belle-and-her-baby/
With Series 5 broadcast well under way in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya every week, it was never to be long before filming for the new series began again. With new director, Ken, settled in and lear...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/filming-series-6-in-embu/
With Obama arriving in Kenya for his presidential visit tomorrow, our cast and crew have an important message for him! And in case he visits his family in Siaya County, we could be persuaded, jus...
https://shambashapeupblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/welcome-to-kenya-president-obama/