They say the continent will lag in achieving Sustainable Development Goals if it does not embrace and deploy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions to its challenges.
More than 2.1 million people in Kenya are facing starvation following two years of poor rainfall, the COVID-19 pandemic and an outbreak of desert locusts, according to the latest report by the country's National Drought Management Authority (NDMA).
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Genome editing may help protect Kenya’s most important cash crop tea grown in the country’s prime highlands from the ravages of climate change.
The crop is facing a near-century of sweeping climatic changes that could diminish its competitive savor. But a leading African scientist has proposed using the tools of biotechnology to build in climate resiliency and help maintain the signature flavor that gives Kenyan tea an edge in the international market.
Robust measures urged to curb temperature rise in Africa
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Nairobi, March 10 : A Kenyan scholar has urged African countries to put solid measures in place to curb rise in temperatures, saying the continent could suffer water stress due to overheating. The hot weather might result to further droughts culminating in food insecurity among other devastating agricultural impacts, said Shem Wandiga, professor of chemistry and a former acting director in the Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA) at the University of Nairobi on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported.