Hit by Wild Weather, Kenya's Herders Fire Up a Hot New Crop: Chili Peppers

In this arid stretch of Kajiado County, where worsening heat and drought have been tough on livestock farmers, Arnold Ole Kapurua is experimenting with a hot new crop: chilis. Ole Kapurua, 29, a farmer and agronomist, now grows two acres of the fiery pods — and is training other farmers to do the same — as a way to protect their incomes in the face of harsher weather linked to climate change. "With time we realized that we weren't making good money as our livestock income...

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