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Measuring How Climate Change Affects Africas Food Security
2014-10-15 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: For the past 40 years Josephine Kakiyi, 55, has been cultivating maize, beans and vegetables on her small plot of land in the remote area of Kwa Vonza, in Kitui County, eastern Kenya. Even though this has always been a hot and semi-arid region, over the last 15 years Kakiyi has noticed that the rainfall has reduced and become increasingly unpredictable. She doesn't exactly know why this is happening. The only thing she knows for sure is that "now it's harder to say when it will rain." But...
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