New App to warn East Africa farmers of adverse climatic conditions developed

Herbert K.Muhure, a communications officer with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) based in Rwanda shows a guest a pamphlet showing FAO activities in the country during an exhibition by different countries from Eastern Africa region at FAO office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the occasion to mark the 70th anniversary of FAO and a special media day.

NAIROBI: More than 1.1 million to 3 million people in Kenya are in need of food aid due to effects of climate change and the El-Nino rains, an official of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has said.

Mr Robert Allport, the UN agency’s official in-charge of Kenya said FAO had put in place good conservation and agricultural practices as part of measures to mitigate against adverse weather conditions and boost agricultural production in different counties in the country.