On the 9th and 10th of October, Alex Oduor, programme officer for ICRAF – ESAf, Alterra programme officer from the Netherlands, Irene Moed, and myself travelled to Makueni County. The aim of our travel was to collect initial stories of local farmers and document the impact which the implementation of the Food and Water Security programme may have on smallholder farmers or rural communities. We travelled to Makueni County to talk to several farmers in the field, with the aim of understanding how farmers are currently developing climate smart water management practices. The farmers that we visited in the county showed a good example of how rainwater harvesting techniques were used as a sustainable water management alternative for water security and food production. Read more