Wanon Media

27/02/2023

Due to the climate change pressures on critical agricultural resources such as arable lands, there is definitely dire need to optimise not only crop yield per unit area but also each input of food production.

- Kirotwa Sheila, Wanon Media

https://wanonmedia.com/blog/precision-agriculture-and-input-optimization-in-kenya

21/02/2023

Agroforestry is the deliberate blending of tree or shrub production with that of livestock and crops. The outcome? A more varied agricultural business, more revenue and improved conservation.

- Kirotwa Sheila

In Kenya, agroforestry necessitates planting the ideal tree in the ideal location for the ideal objective. It combines farming and forestry techniques to provide productive and long-lasting farms, ranches and woods.

14/12/2022

... increased time spent playing video games and watching YouTube videos, separately, was associated with heightened risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder, a condition that involves uncontrollable thoughts and/or behaviors.

- Rebecca Ruiz

While some screen use may be problematic, practical tips can help you manage the risks.

09/12/2022

Telehealth services more generally soared during the pandemic, as people sought to minimize in-person contact and embraced the convenience ...families and providers have grown comfortable with remote medical visits.

- The Washington Post

At a time when demand for aid has spiked and the supply of practitioners has not, schools are turning to videoconferences for student counseling.

07/12/2022

Environmentalists are hailing the groundbreaking legislation endorsed by the European Union early Tuesday. It will, however, need to be formally passed by the EU’s parliament and member states, a move likely to occur early next year

- VoA

Companies exporting products like chocolate, timber and palm oil will soon face tough new European Union regulations to ensure these goods aren’t linked to deforestation.

05/12/2022

Kenya has since 2012 prohibited the use of genetically modified crops for both animal and human feed. It was opposed to food made with biotechnological advances.

- Sheila Kirotwa

Kenya has since 2012 prohibited the use of genetically modified crops for both animal and human feed. It was opposed to food made with biotechnological advances.

30/11/2022

Kamau noted that his dream is to fight poverty and climate change by enabling millions of smallholder farmers to invest in carbon farming in ways that smallholder farmers will be transformed from climate victims to climate heroes.

- Roseland Lumwamu

29/11/2022

The unexpected finding, researchers say, may be attributable to climate change—the body size rules reversed in Northern Treeshrews as average temperatures climbed—and likely exists in other species.

- Yale University

The Northern Treeshrew, a small, bushy-tailed mammal native to South and Southeast Asia, defies two of the most widely tested ecological "rules" of body size variation within species, according to a new study coauthored by Yale anthropologist Eric J. Sargis.

24/11/2022

Baobabs can withstand adverse climatic conditions. They grow in the African savannah and some tropical areas and the baobab is said to be the longest-living flowering tree on Earth.

- BBC Africa

Farmers in the coastal county of Kilifi reportedly sold eight trees to a company based in Georgia.

22/11/2022

Indeed, the rich nations do not deny this responsibility of *‘loss and damage’ *but if time is to go by, they have not been faithful to their word.

-Dr. Idah Mwenda

The most hurt persons are yet to be sensitized enough to know it is not really that the gods are angry with them and have thus closed the heavens, but that human activities have caused the climate calamity and solution lies in change of human behaviour.

18/11/2022

The article, which documents health effects of GMOs on rats, found that GMO corn can have a significant negative impact on health when consumed chronically over a long period of time.

- The Organic Center

Photo Credit: Carl Wycoff For those of you following the science of health and environmental effects of GMOs as closely as we do here at The Organic Center, you probably read the article published in 2012 in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology by Séralini et al. entitled “Long term toxicity ...

16/11/2022

Snails are therefore an essential source of calcium for many songbirds. More recently, human-induced changes have become a challenge for snail populations, and arguably a major challenge,especially for breeding birds.

- Kirotwa Sheila, Wanon Media

Snails eat at the bottom of the food chain. Terrestrial snails often rely on diets rich in calcium and other nutrients to support their growth, shell repair, and general health.