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Farmers in Kenya develop taste for insects as drought hurts crops

Cricket food

The knee-high dome on Ikung’u Kathimbu’s farm in Weru village, Eastern Kenya, shelters an unusual crop: a termite swarm.

Kathimbu walks around the structure covered with banana leaves, drumming on a tin-like vessel and stamping his feet on the ground.

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