Kenya’s farmers spot opportunities in warming climate

AlertNet: For farmer Eunice Wambui, the erratic weather patterns that increasingly disrupt the crop season in her village are a headache. But the same warmer temperatures plaguing Wambui have given Philomena Nyokabi the opportunity to try her hand at horticulture. Both women are farmers in Kenya's Rift Valley region, but while climate shifts have favoured Nyokabi's newfound niche cultivating fruit and vegetables, Wambui struggles to produce a profitable harvest of corn. At her farm in Rongai, a dry lowland......

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