Mercy Githara is the mental health and psychosocial manager at the Kenya Red Cross. In her experience, the mental fallout ...

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, a project in rural Kenya has been studying the possible effects of climate change on mental ...

One of the most important agricultural activities in Kenya contributing to food security is maize farming. According to Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro), maize, ...

Researchers in Madagascar, Spain and the Netherlands have also found links between climate change and depression and ...

Kenya's delay in adopting biotechnology seeds for maize, cotton, and potatoes has resulted in farmers and consumers losing $157 million (approximately Sh28.4 billion) in value, according to a report.

The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) said it has opened up 25,000 acres for sugarcane production in Bura under lease terms ...

A slowdown in fertiliser imports amid erratic weather, including devastating floods in May 2024, hurt production last year, ...

The elections in August offered Kenyans a temporary distraction from some of the challenges the country is facing. At the top of these challenges is food insecurity. In 2022, the country has ...

Kenya’s Agriculture Minister Mithika Linturi and his Zambian counterpart Mtolo Phiri signed an MoU in March to herald a new era of large-scale farming of maize in Zambia for export to Nairobi, but ...

The Kenyan government has called on citizens to start consuming other food products such as rice and potatoes, and not ugali, or maize meal flour, the national staple food. A prolonged shortage of ...