Traditional crops puff hopes for climate resilienceAmbuso Opila at one of his sorghum farms in Kano in Kisumu. [File, Standard]Two years ago, Michael Gichangi launched a business he hopes will help his rural community in Embu County better cope with climate change stresses: making puffed cereal from climate-hardy traditional grains. Subscribe Now »As many households in Sub-Saharan Africa struggle with poverty and food insecurity, climate change is hitting harvests and making life even harder. That has pushed many farmers to diversify back into drought-resistant traditional crops. Producing more millet and other traditional hardy crops, and finding ways to process them to produce more income, is one way of doing that, Young said.

Source: Standard Digital January 12, 2020 23:03 UTC