Chrispinus Juma
39 Articles
From nursing dreams to seed saviour: Can one woman transform Kenya's food security?
A straight, gravelled walkway ends at her house’s doorstep. On the gate’s left side lie fish ponds, with fish darting in perpetual dance beneath a canopy of jungle-green mesh. At the pond side, tents have been pitched.
Millers warn of high aflatoxin in Ugandan maize circulating in Kenya
United Grain Millers Association Chairman Kennedy Nyaga says that the millers have flagged hundreds of bags of maize consignment from Busia border entry point.
Mangroves Treasures: Pate Islands mud crab fattening boom brings new hope for fishermen
In mud crab fattening aquaculture, crablets are caught, caged, and fed to maturity for sale.
From Plenty to Peril: Lake Kenyatta's Spirited Fight for Survival
Gone were the longfin eels (locally called mkunga), ngorongoro, the white-fatty nilon fish, mborode, and mchokole—all vanished, perhaps forever.
Saving Lamu mangroves: from futile photo ops to real progress
PRATI group members say they have seen a success rate of mangrove transplants growing to the tune of over 97 percent.
When hyenas, elephants rob families of breadwinners: tales of Kajiado's long teeth of pain
Many victims have deep scars with memories of attacks, while others have blood oozing from freshly inflicted wounds. In some homes, graves are fresh. Deep in the Maasai community villages, the simple act of repairing a broken fence could tragically end a life. ...
How water hyacinth is saving Maasai Mara University millions in water costs
Water hyacinth, which has been condemned by Lake Victoria fishermen, has found a home at Maasai Mara University. The weed removes algae, faecal coliform bacteria, trace toxic metals, organics, and a variety of other dissolved impurities from the university's wastewater....
COP28: Kenya’s unhinged luck in the rush for Loss and Damage Fund billions
President William Ruto earlier hit out at financial partners for the punitive debt financing models.
‘Respect Mudavadi and Wetangula,’ Washiali tells Malala on call to fold parties
Former Mumias East lawmaker Benjamin Washiali has now urged the former senator to go slow on his vitriol talk, which he says “lacks goodwill”.
Gov't dismisses report showing Kenyans are consuming toxic chemicals in foodstuffs
The Pest Control Products Board (PCPB) says the report released last month by Heinrich Boll Stiftung, which found farmers, horticultural workers, and open-source water users exposed to toxic pesticides, does not hold any water.