Impacts of Climate Change felt in Kenya
In the past few months, most of us in Nairobi have been wondering what the locusts and the grasshoppers have been upto in the Urban Centres. For me, i was alerted to think that their arrival would cause havoc to the splendind harvest that our farmers are having in these unusual rains most of this year. ICIPE has just confirmed to me, that indeed my thoughts could be right and wrong, and this is actually as a result of the changing climate. ................. Thursday, June 24, 2010 Insects in Kenyan capital no cause for alarm NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 24 - In December of 2007, swarms of locusts invaded the North Eastern region destroying food crops barely a month after heavy rains had boosted crops and pasture in the region. The locusts were said to have migrated from Somalia. Now, three years later, an upsurge of grasshoppers in Nairobi has raised concerns that a similar phenomenon could be in the making. However, a scientist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIP