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Oct 14, 2014

Kenyan scientists set up laboratory on climate change | Coastweek


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CGIAR Climate's insight:

According to scientists, crop failure in sub-Saharan Africa is blamed on the changing climate that has led to low harvest, livestock deaths and recurrent drought.

However, all is not lost as attempts to find a lasting solution has continued courtesy of the universities and scientists from the Kenya-based Consultative Group of Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which includes the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF).

At the moment ICRAF scientists are in the process of researching on trees to help map out climatic conditions the trees’ past drought pattern by establishing a state-of-the-art laboratory.