Partnerships for Improved

Livelihoods in Cotton March 2018

Base Titanium is a wholly owned

subsidiary of Sydney and London listed

mining company Base Resources.

► Operate the Kwale Mineral Sands

Mine.

► Having completed construction and

commenced mining in Oct 2013 the

first shipment of minerals occurred

in Feb 2014.

► Ilmenite, rutile and zircon

► Employ 670 people, 1,430 indirect

jobs and 1,360 induced positions.

► Currently makes up two-thirds of

Ke ya’s i i g i dustry a d is a Vision 2030 flagship project.

► Mining to take place until 2023 with

additional exploration underway to

extend mine life.

► Also developing the Toilara Sands

project in South West Madagascar.

Kwale Mineral Sands Mine

► Key objective is to achieve balanced flow of

mutual benefits with communities.

► Kwale County, like much of Kenya, is a largely

agricultural economy.

► Focus now on creating improved sustainable

non-mining livelihoods

Mining & Agriculture

Benchmarks taken from the

2017 smallholder farmer

survey;

► 63% of householders

have none, or no more

than primary education

► Similar trends are

evident with children

► 67% of the households

have access to less than

US$1.25/day

► 52% of households

contain between 5-10

members

► 10% contain more than

10 individuals

► Men are the decision

makers in 77% of

households

► Women largely follow

instructions, 93%

► 37% of women are

however involved in

livestock farming

► 32% of women also

assist with the marketing

of farm produce

► Most women possess

mobile phones & M-pesa

accounts

► 24% of women have

bank accounts

Context

► Skills development

► Availability of smallholder extension services in all cotton growing areas

► Improving availability of new, high yielding seed

► Accessing the credit needed to purchase reliable soil & crop inputs

► Proximity of supply & transport to procure farm inputs in a timely manner

► Acceptance of Crop Insurance as a sensible, cost effective risk management tool

► Adopting the processes needed to reliably meet market & customer expectations

► Negative perceptions of Kenyan co-operatives, particularly amongst small-scale farmers

► High cost of collection, transportation & ginning

► Li ited s ope to add value to otto eyo d extracting lint

► Visibility of African cotton internationally

► Site development

Cotton

Partnerships

PARTNERS

ECO-SYSTEM

DEG FMO

DFAT

Sydney University

Kenchic

Cotton On

CompACI

Makueni Ginneries Kwale

County Government Renaissance

KALRO

Fibre Crops Directorate

WWF

Kinondo Community

Bank

PAVI Co-Operative

Kwale Community

East African Maltings

► Defining customer needs and coordination with cooperative (lint specifications required for each textile type or category)

► Draw technical input from Cotton Australia to trial an expanded range of cotton seed varieties (production yield, performance against required lint specifications, resilience)

► Ginnery run by cooperative with funding from Base & other donors

► Lint exported through Mombasa and consumed locally

► Cotton seed processed extracting oil & preparing stock feed

► Add-value to Kenyan cotton

► Establish commercial relations between Kwale Ginnery & export market to contract local spinners to produce thread

► Adoption of updated Kenyan specific guidelines for smallholder ethical cotton production

► Lift governmental support of farmers & co-operatives

► Document & communicate the developmental impacts to encourage expansion of smallholder farmer interest beyond Kwale

► International market interest & confidence in Kenyan Cotton as a superior brand

Long Term Objectives