New satellite-based scheme makes first payments to pastoralists What hits you when you get out of the truck at Ginda Village, in Northern Kenya, is the smell. Farmer Haro Sora’s land is littered with the carcasses of cattle and donkeys that have keeled over following an intense, prolonged drought. ARead More …
Livestock insurance – a chance to outsmart drought?
24 October, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Crops
Kenya: A glimpse of climate-smart agriculture
16 October, 2011 by (comments)From “madman” to model farmer – perseverance pays off for Maurice There are many ways to describe Maurice Kwadha: farmer, entrepreneur, and climate-smart are some of them. But some in Kombewa, in western Kenya’s Nyando Basin, used to call him a madman. Once, when he was collecting discarded milk packetsRead More …
Filed Under: Crops
Millions in Horn of Africa face food, water crisis
15 June, 2011 by (comments)Prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa is becoming critical and threatens the livelihoods of eight million people, according to new analysis from the FAO. In Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia severe water shortages have lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of livestock, crop failures, unaffordable food prices,Read More …
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Kenyan tea and climate change: trouble brewing
26 May, 2011 by (comments)CIAT climate predictions redraw the map of one of the country’s most important cash crops. Thousands of smallholder farmers in Kenya could be forced to abandon tea production if new climate predictions for the country come true. New CIAT research shows that many current tea producing areas in the countryRead More …
Filed Under: Africa, Climate Change, Regions
Two Degrees Up video series – 10,000 online hits, and rising
5 May, 2011 by (comments)If you still haven’t seen them, the recent series of Two Degrees Up climate change photofilms, released for the launch of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in December last year, are continuing to attract plenty of online viewers. This week they reached andRead More …
Filed Under: Africa, Climate Change, Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia, Regions
Water wars? Changing climate spells trouble in East Africa
2 May, 2011 by (comments)Rising temperatures and dwindling rainfall have caused the retreat of the northern shores of Lake Turkana from Ethiopia into Northern Kenya. As this stunning and troubling film shows, this has resulted in violent disputes between neighbouring tribes as they try ensure their access to water. Clocking in at over 16Read More …
Filed Under: Africa, Climate Change, Regions
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