By Michael J. Ssali: Daily Monitor The rain season has begun in most parts of Uganda. When it rains, it is normal for us to seek shelter from building or any other structure from where we watch runoff water in the compound making its way to the valley. These are cubic metres upon cubic metres [...]
The rains presently pounding most parts of Kenya have taken a heavy toll. There have been a significant number of fatalities, thousands of people displaced by floods, property destroyed and crops washed away. The meteorological department is warning that the rains will not let up soon, while the Kenya Red Cross has issued a detailed [...]
By Otushabire Tibyangye: Daily Monitor Every farmer anticipates a big harvest at the end of the growing season but a number of factors at play during the time the crops are in the field have a big influence on the outcome. That is why farmers have to use pesticides, fertilisers and appropriate technology against these [...]
By Daily Monitor March to May constitutes the first major rainfall season and there are major physical conditions, which are likely to influence the weather in Uganda during this period. These include current conditions over tropical Pacific Ocean and the influence of the emerging cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures over much of the western Indian Ocean. [...]
By DAVID HERBLING: Business Daily Listed agricultural firm Limuru Tea almost tripled its earnings last year, thanks to favourable weather conditions and higher tea prices in the global market in 2012. The company posted an after-tax profit of Sh101.8 million for the year ended December 2012, representing a 150.5 per cent growth compared to Sh40.5 [...]
By BOZO JENJE: Business daily Kenya is among countries in Africa targeted to pioneer a system to track adaptation to climate change and development. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) says the new system for tracking the social impacts of efforts to adapt to climate change could soon be in place in Africa [...]
There is widespread interest in the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and on the most effective investments to assist adaptation to these changes, yet the scientific basis for estimating production risks and prioritizing investments has been quite limited. Here we show that by combining historical crop production and weather data [...]
An important source of uncertainty in anticipating the effects of climate change on agriculture is limited understanding of crop responses to extremely high temperatures1,2. This uncertainty partly reflects the relative lack of observations of crop behaviour in farmers’ fields under extreme heat. We used nine years of satellite measurements of wheat growth in northern India [...]
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