{"id":6689,"date":"2019-11-20T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"kenya-maps-first-climate-atlas-to-battle-future-food-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/20\/kenya-maps-first-climate-atlas-to-battle-future-food-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Maps First &#8216;Climate Atlas&#8217; To Battle Future Food Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Nita Bhalla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\nwill launch its first localized weather modelling system early next year,\nproviding key data on how climate change will impact crop production across the\neast African nation in the decades to come, the project&#8217;s founder said on\nTuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed\nby researchers at Kenya&#8217;s Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and\nTechnology, the Climate Atlas will provide projections on rainfall and\ntemperature patterns across Kenya&#8217;s 47 counties from the year 2050 to 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John\nWesonga, lead developer of the web-based Climate Atlas platform, said there\nwere countless global climate modelling systems available, but none provided\nlocalized data for Kenya over a long period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The\nClimate Atlas will provide us with future scenarios of what the weather\npatterns will be like at a county-level in Kenya,&#8221; Wesonga told the\nThomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\nare looking for data such as in which locations will we see the highest and\nlowest temperatures and rainfall, how high and low will the temperatures and\nrainfall likely to be, what time of year they will happen, and how long they\nwill last.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based\non those projections, policymakers, researchers, businesses and farmers will\nable to shift to interventions from using more resilient crop varieties to\nimproving drainage during drought and floods respectively\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191119111455-a1bo1\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nita Bhalla Kenya will launch its first localized weather modelling system early next year, providing key data on how climate change will impact crop production across the east African&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}