Climate change needs new farming plans - Business Daily
A majority of Kenyans are farmers who depend on rain to grow their crops and for feed for their livestock.
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Photo: K. Trautmann. Op-ed by James Kinyangi, Timothy Thomas and Michael Waithaka. This week, policymakers are convening in Naivasha for a National Adaptation Planning conference, a meeting organised by the agriculture and environment ministries and the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
This is Kenya’s chance to start developing a more definitive climate change adaptation plan for the agricultural sector.
A new book, East African Agriculture and Climate Change, will help frame the discussion. Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa with support from CCAFS, it includes a chapter focused solely on what might happen to farming in Kenya.
Scientists developed four different scenarios, or climate models, each revealing different outcomes for food production between now and 2050.