How Kenyan farmers are adapting to climate change
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Climate change - which the United Nations defines as long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns - is a growing global problem, particularly for farmers. A recent UN report found agricultural productivity growth in Africa has decreased by 34 percent since 1961. That's more than any other region in the world.
Michael Kaloki takes a road trip around Kenya, speaking to farmers about their struggles to grow crops with the increasingly unpredictable weather.
He asks Rachel Bezner Kerr, a professor at the Department of Global Development at Cornell University in the United States why climate change is happening and what the future holds.
He visits the organisations that are trying to help farmers adapt to climate change. Dr Ivan Rwomushana, from the non-profit inter-governmental organisation CABI, and Oliver Furechi from the charity Practical Action tell him what strategies and solutions they're teaching farmers.
Presenter: Michael Kaloki Producer: Jo Critcher
Image: Nancy, a farmer in the county of Nakuru in Kenya; Credit: BBC
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael Koloki. Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC. |
| 0:07.3 | Today we're looking at how climate change is affecting farming in Africa. |
| 0:11.5 | Africa has been identified as a hotspot of vulnerability and a place that's already experiencing |
| 0:18.6 | climate change impacts. |
| 0:20.1 | We discuss the challenges farmers are facing |
| 0:22.1 | and how they're trying to overcome them. |
| 0:24.8 | We do not want our manure |
| 0:26.4 | to be taken away. So we are trying to |
| 0:28.5 | stop any erosions |
| 0:30.2 | and we are encouraging people to do the same. |
| 0:32.8 | This is Business Daily from |
| 0:34.5 | the BBC. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm driving along a busy highway heading out of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. |
| 0:45.0 | The scenery is changing from the concrete office buildings to farmland. |
| 0:50.2 | Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya's economy and for many other African countries, but it's |
| 0:56.0 | been massively affected by climate change. So just what is climate change? Well, according to the |
| 1:02.3 | United Nations, it refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. A recent report |
| 1:09.1 | by the UN Intergovernmental Panel found that because of climate change in Africa, |
| 1:13.6 | agricultural productivity growth has decreased by 34% since 1961. |
| 1:20.6 | That's more than any other region in the world. |
| 1:23.6 | Rachel Besner Kerr is a professor at the Department of Global Development at Cornell University in the United States |
| 1:30.9 | and one of the coordinating lead authors of that United Nations report. |
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