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Why every farmer must start harvesting rain water

It was reassuring to hear former Prime Minister Raila Odinga talking about rainwater harvesting while addressing the Mt Kenya youth caucus in Nairobi this week. Mr Odinga rightly mentioned that in this era of climate change where rainfall is scarce and unpredictable rainwater harvesting offers an excellent strategy for food security. Indeed, the United Nations has cited rainwater harvesting?—?as a simple, time-proven method of climate change adaptation.

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