{"id":7359,"date":"2020-01-09T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T05:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"traditional-crops-puff-hopes-for-climate-resilience-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/09\/traditional-crops-puff-hopes-for-climate-resilience-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Crops Puff Hopes For Climate Resilience In Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By The\nEast African<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years\nago, Michael Gichangi launched a business he hopes will help his rural\ncommunity better cope with climate change stresses: making puffed cereal from\nclimate-hardy traditional grains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a\n$1,000 machine he bought, he pops millet\u2014a drought-tolerant grain, but one not\nas widely eaten as staple maize\u2014and turns it into a popular snack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the\nlast two years he has sold about $1,500 worth of the popped grain, and is the\nfirst in the district to have one of the machines, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\nstarted popping millet to produce very delicious snacks, by mixing it with\ngroundnuts, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon powder and simsim (sesame) oil&#8221;, he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combination has won particular approval from students looking for an after-school snack, he said and is now sold at the local Embu market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many households in sub-Saharan Africa struggle with poverty and food insecurity, climate change is hitting harvests and making life even harder. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Traditional-crops-puff-hopes-for-climate-resilience-in-Kenya\/3073694-5411330-g88vj\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African Two years ago, Michael Gichangi launched a business he hopes will help his rural community better cope with climate change stresses: making puffed cereal from climate-hardy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7360,"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-7359","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\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}