Climate

Over 6,000 farmers in the semi-arid Yatta Constituency have used water pans to carry their staple crops to full maturity during the renewed drought and grow additional, high-earning vegetables to export.  Water pans or earth dams collect and store rain and drainage water. Farmers dig them into the ground using jembes or machines to provide […]

By Henry Mang’eni Joseph Chiwai, 72, has lived a lifetime witnessing his once-thriving homeland turn into a barren landscape. From fertile soils and lush vegetation to erratic rainfall and bare fields, Joseph tells how his generation has experienced the harsh realities of climate change in Kauma in Kilifi South “I actually didn’t see my grandfather

Safaricom Foundation has launched a Sh120 million agricultural training program that is recruiting 5,000 young farmers in Busia County Between 2025 and 2027, the Wezesha Agri-Eco Hub Project will host four-month group training courses. Training will be held on a 12-acre centre of excellence demo farm at Alupe University which will have demonstration plots on

By Jenny Luesby Africa holds the potential to capture more than 20x the world’s oil and gas emissions – blamed for causing climate change – but cannot get a hearing in a global climate agenda that is leading the world into an ever deeper weather crisis. Global leaders now in Baku at the COP 29

Nigeria is leading the way in weather services for farmers, delivering year-long forecasts and detailed agricultural advice across its entire federation. In Kenya, farmers remain without the forecasts on a vacuum in coordinating forecasts across the county system, set up in 2010. According to the FAO, farmers with access to long-term, detailed weather information increase

The Kenya Meteorological Department has issued a forecast warning that many regions of Kenya will get only four weeks of rain instead of the normal three months threatening to destroy harvests for more than half the country. Driven by La Niña conditions which bring warmer and drier weather and are expected to continue until early

By Jenny Luesby Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change into its main driver?  It seems the answer may be yes. For we might be sitting in a ticking carbon bomb. African soil is degrading ever faster, losing us millions

Weather researchers are warning Kenya faces one of the driest short rains of the last century, in 2024, with rainfall 50 to 60 percent lower than last year, pushing farmers straight back into drought farming. According to climate researchers at the International Center for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA)-KRCS, there is now a 70 percent chance of

Kenya’s worst floods in thirty years have killed thousands of livestock, destroyed acres of cropland leaving the country at risk of imminent food shortage and food price hikes. According to a flood operations update by the Kenya Red Cross, the ongoing heavy rains, flash floods, and landslides have destroyed an estimated 32,000 acres of cropland

The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has begun growing Cultivated Enset. Commonly called the ‘false banana’, the ‘tree against hunger’ can be cultivated in drought and waterlogged conditions. Only grown as a domesticated crop in Ethiopia, it is the most important root crop, in the country and is a staple food for