About 98 percent of Kenya's agriculture is rain-fed, meaning a failed rainy season can determine an entire harvest.
By
Regional Communications Coordinator
Heifer International, Africa
A new analysis warning that a Super El Niño could threaten 500 million farmers worldwide and wipe $342 billion from global agricultural output may sound like a future crisis.
For many Kenyan farmers, it is already today's reality. The warning underscores a lesson the agricultural sector can no longer ignore: climate resilience is no longer an environmental add-on. It has become the foundation of agricultural productivity.
Erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and rising temperatures are steadily reducing farm productivity.
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What is needed is African leadership and deeper coordination around what already works.
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