Smallholder farmers in Kwale County are slowly adapting to climate-smart agriculture practices to improve productivity, enhance resilience to climate variability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon.
In Kikoneni ward of Lungalunga sub-county, small-scale farmers John Mutuku, Befronia Kingethu and Paul Muteti have taken to using climate-resilient crop varieties, improving water management, and adopting conservation agriculture techniques to mitigate climate-induced agriculture disruptions.
The farmers are embracing climate-smart agriculture that encompasses farming practices such as agroforestry systems, drought-tolerant crop varieties and techniques like crop diversification, conservation farming, crop rotation and intercropping.
Climate-smart agriculture is an integrated approach to managing landscapes such as cropland and livestock that addresses the twin challenges of food security and climate change.
