“The Battle for Laikipia” offers a prescient perspective by focusing on the communities that are living with the consequences of climate change right now: the ranchers and pastoralists of Laikipia, ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has advised that at least 4.2 million people in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) urgently need humanitarian ...

WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021 — The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$150 million International Development Association (IDA*) credit to support community identified and locally led ...

When most people think of Kenya’s breadbasket, their minds often drift to the green highlands of Rift Valley or Western Kenya. Yet the country’s greatest agricultural potential lies elsewhere, in the ...

Kenya could raise as much as 10 billion shillings ($72 million) to spend on curbing deforestation to fight climate change if it securitizes income from its forests, according to David Gikaria, ...

MAKUENI, Kenya (AlertNet) – Barely a month after heavy rains pounded Kenya, many seasonal rivers in the country’s semi-arid east are already drying up, and residents are preparing for the months-long ...

FILE PHOTO: A woman picks tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi, November 5, 2014. NAIROBI, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate ...

Animals drink from a pool at one of the county government sand dams across River Mutwaewa in Mwingi West. [File, Standard] Over the years, the development of arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) has only ...

For any farmer, large tracks of green maize plantations are a joy to watch as the plants sway from side to side. The lush green vegetation, healthy livestock and children playing in the fields are a ...

Kenya is set to introduce new rules to regulate the key tool used in offering weather-related risk insurance and compel insurers to compensate customers within 10 days, in a move to shield farmers, ...