Climate change: What next for food producers?

Some of the indigenous seeds in a seed bank belonging to Francisca Mbuli Kitheka, a small scale farmer from Yatta Sub County and Machakos County which she uses in her ecological farming activities. PHOTO COURTESY

The Earth is growing warmer. The phenomenon, climate change, has divided opinion with one group recognising the threat and the other resting on their lairs with zilch concern.

Caught in the crossfire of arguments are farmers, majority of who seek the opinion of scientists for direction in the wake of unpredictable weather patterns.