Adaptation funds must up Africa food security

Environment ,Climate Change and Forestry Cabinet secretary Debolrah Barasa with Rhino Ark CEO Christian Lambrechts and other senior government officials during the official launch of the South West Mau Forest fencing project on May 22, 2025 at Ndoinet , at the border of Nakuru and Bomet counties. [Kipsang Joseph,Standard]

A recent visit to the village gave me hope, for once, that there may be better harvest this year. This part of Kisumu County has fertile soil, but usually messed up by erratic rain patterns. Small-scale farmers who would plant by the calendar now look up the sky to decide when to. Sometimes they win. Other times they lose.

Galleries are no longer a feature in homesteads. The inadequate harvests are also courtesy of failure to till arable land, just to reduce likely losses incurred in crop failure often occasioned by prolonged drought, or floods that sweep crops in farms. This is a cause of food insecurity among poverty stricken rural populations.