Women should be at the centre of climate change conversations

Women planting cassava on a recently prepared land in Nigeria, July 12, 2017. [AFP, Courtesy]

A walk in Karura Forest in Nairobi on a chilly morning is nostalgic. One cannot help but marvel at various indigenous trees and shrubs. One shrub, we learnt, is known as mutati in Gikuyu language (parasol tree).