Nairobi, April 4 -- Emerging from the recent enhanced rainfall, much of the expansive Kitui County remains green, but signs of stress are already evident. Temperatures rise to as high as 37 degrees Celsius making it untenable to work in the fields beyond mid-morning. Kitui is a semi-arid region in the larger eastern region of Kenya.

Amid what looks like a disheartening situation, a project known as Strengthening Regenerative Agriculture in Kenya (STRAK) is working to change the story through a range of simple but transformative innovations and technologies. A project of AGRA with funding from IKEA Foundation, STRAK currently works with farmers in four counties namely, Kitui, Makueni, Tharaka Nithi and Embu, which have vast but dry lands....