November 23

• Kenya: Barter Trade May Boost Rural Food Security - Experts

  It may be dismissed by Kenya's middle classes and elite as primitive, but farmer Leah Wambui, is convinced that bartering promises a new way of protecting rural food supplies as... Read more »

November 16

• Kenya: Drought Farming Lessons Join Reading and Writing at Schools

  At Kamunyagia Primary, year seven student Purity Njigi is learning something new alongside her usual lessons - how to produce enough food to eat when there isn't enough rain. Read more »

November 6

• Kenya: Encourage Commercial Logging to Grow Kenya's Forest Cover - Report

  Kenya should encourage private businesses to grow trees for charcoal and timber to increase its forest cover rather than relying on the rehabilitation of indigenous forests, the... Read more »

November 2

• Kenya: Rural Kenya Tunes in Community Radio for Weather Alerts

  The tea and coffee bushes growing on the hillsides around Isaac Kinyua's home have long provided him and many of his kin with a livelihood, giving Central Kenya an economic edge... Read more »

• Kenya: Corrupt Officials Aid Destruction of Kenya's Mau Forest

  A syndicate involved in illegal logging of indigenous trees from Kenya's largest forest has been bribing police and civil servants in order to continue its activities, Kenyan... Read more »

October 19

• East Africa: Putting Sweet Potato in the Trough

  Pressures from climate change and population growth are increasing the competition for grains as food or livestock feed in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. But sweet... Read more »

• Kenya: Kenyans Hop to Rabbit Farming

  Small and furry are not the words that usually come to mind when one thinks of Kenyan livestock. But they describe exactly the animals that Charles Mwangi farms. Read more »

October 8

• Kenya: Islanders Rehabilitate Their Environment, Lives

  For the past 16 years, Ester Evelyn Odhiambo has dedicated herself to improving life on one small island. It's no small task. Read more »

October 4

• Kenya: Govt Steps Up Geothermal Power

  Kenya has inaugurated Africa's biggest geothermal power project in a bid to meet its growing need for electricity and lower its consumption of nonrenewable energy. Read more »

September 25

• Kenya: Nation to Be Hit By Floods, Droughts Due to Extreme Weather - Oxfam

  Northern Kenya risks another humanitarian crisis due to a failure to prepare for predicted heavy rains, one year after a biting drought that pushed millions into hunger, charity... Read more »

September 19

• East Africa: Saving Lives on Lake Victoria [opinion]

  The Met Office has a long-standing commitment to help developing countries improve their meteorological services. Recently, we supported an effort led by the World Meteorological... Read more »

September 13

• Kenya: Farmers Cut Tilling to Raise Yields, Store Carbon

  In the west Kenyan village of Siilila, 27-year-old Geoffrey Wanjala and other members of his farmers' group are trying out a way of working the land that avoids ploughing and... Read more »

August 7

• Kenya: Water Shortages Driving Growing Thefts, Conflicts

  As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show. Read more »

August 3

• Kenya: Troubled Northern Kenya Seeks Peace Through Conserving Resources

  One of the most effective ways to deal with growing conflict in northern Kenya may be to address the environmental failings that help drive it, says a pastoralist development... Read more »

July 30

• Africa: Bamboo Farms Help Save Forests

  It is a chilly morning in Olenguruone village on the southern flank of the Rift Valley, but Gloria Chepng'etich is warming up to the task at hand. Read more »

July 23

• Africa: Regions Where Water Disputes Are Fuelling Tensions

  Disputes over water are common around the world, exacerbated by climate change, growing populations, rapid urbanisation, increased irrigation and a rising demand for alternative... Read more »

July 20

• Kenya: Water Harvesting Slakes Thirst At Innovative Kenyan Inn

  When Gaitano Likhavila was still working as an accountant at the provincial hospital in the west Kenyan town of Kakamega, he ran into a situation that got him thinking about water. Read more »

June 21

• Africa: Zambia Gives Food to Help Refugees in Kenya

  The Republic of Zambia has donated food commodities worth about US$100,000 (about Ksh. 8.3 million) to support refugees in camps at Dadaab in northeastern Kenya. Read more »

June 18

• Kenya: Mount Kenya Project Points the Way to Rural Renewal

  The long rains, from March through May, were plentiful in Kenya this year, following two years of calamitous drought across much of East Africa. The fields and forests are lush on... Read more »

June 8

• Africa: Can Northern Kenya Farm Its Way Out of Hunger?

  "After the 2009 drought, I almost went crazy because I had nothing," said Halima Issak, who has five children to support. Read more »

May 31

• Kenya: Biogas Project Helps School Save Money, Trees

  When Evelyn Mukami, a form three student, joined Gachoire Girls Secondary School in January 2010, she was very surprised to learn how the meals at her school were prepared. Read more »

May 29

• Kenya: As Rains Change, Citizens Turn to Planting Indigenous Trees

  Living at the edge of Kenya's massive Mau forest complex, Emmanuel Kosen, has been around long enough to see some dramatic changes in the local climate. Read more »

May 11

• Kenya: Solar Powered Phones Recharge Nation's Conversations

  The upcoming Rio+20 conference on sustainable development will try to identify solutions to worsening resource scarcity and climate change, but Habiba Rage may already be holding... Read more »

May 9

• Kenya: The North - From Aid Basket to Meat Exporter?

  Livestock could turn Kenya's drought-stricken northern lands into an engine of job creation, rather than a sinkhole for emergency aid, the minister for the region has said. Read more »

May 7

• Kenya: Nairobi's Green Roofs Save On Energy, Water Use

  Kenyan architects are designing buildings with green roofs covered in vegetation to cool their interiors, conserve energy and water, and help curb greenhouse gas emissions. Read more »