Climate-smart farms are showcasing how farmers can adapt to a changing climate while maintaining yields and livelihoods.

An article on the CGIAR website explains how 50 farmers in Lower Nyando, Western Kenya are championing climate-smart practices, such as managing hybrid drought-tolerant goats, growing drought-tolerant crops and vegetables, building drip irrigation systems and farming fish. The farms ensure women and youth farmers are involved.

Other farmers are able to visit climate-smart farms and learn about options available to them. The farms also serve as research centers, with farmers testing hybrid crops, cross-bred cattle and techniques such as agroforestry and inter-cropping.

The project is being implemented by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa program, CGIAR research centers such as the World Agroforestry Centre and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), ViAgroforestry, Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI), World Neighbors, Kenya’s ministries of livestock, development and agriculture, community-based organizations and the private sector including Magos Farm Enterprises.

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