Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
The agriculture sector in Kenya employs more than 70 percent of the rural population. But the impact of climate change along with inflated costs of food, fuel, and fertilizer have put pressure on smallholder farmers, and millions across the country are experiencing hunger. Now, the Drylands Farmer Research Network (FRN) in West Pokot County, Kenya, hopes to serve as a model for community-led food systems transformation and climate adaptation. The West Pokot County region is arid, and degraded soils grow weak plants. Over 45 years, 1.4 million tons of soil have washed away. Deep gullies, carved by water and intensified by…
Botswana plans to launch its first satellite, BOT SAT-1, in 2023, a project hosted by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. While addressing Botswana parliament in the annual State of the Nation Address, Botswana’s President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, revealed these plans, noting that the country’s premier satellite will allow “Water resource management, industrial development, environmental management, food security, land management and sustainable agriculture. The Bot-SAT-1 will bring Botswana into the global satellite ecosystem for research and development in a variety 32 of disciplines”, he explained.The satellite will elevate Botswana as a knowledge-based economy that can generate real-time information from…
