Using science to empower farmers: Hunting down the invisible worms threatening Kenyan crops
What comes to mind when you think of climate change? Perhaps it’s melting ice shelves and droughts or raging wildfires and floods. To see the large-scale manifestations of a warming planet, we need not look far. On a microscopic level, however, climate change paints a very different picture. For Dr...
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ftembuuniv:oai:localhost:embuni/3662 2023-05-15T16:41:58+02:00 Using science to empower farmers: Hunting down the invisible worms threatening Kenyan crops Karuri, Hannah W. 2020-10 application/pdf http://repository.embuni.ac.ke/handle/embuni/3662 https://www.acu.ac.uk/get-involved/60-stories-of-change/hannah-karuri/ en eng Global Challenges https://www.acu.ac.uk/get-involved/60-stories-of-change/hannah-karuri/ http://repository.embuni.ac.ke/handle/embuni/3662 Other 2020 ftembuuniv 2022-12-27T16:13:21Z What comes to mind when you think of climate change? Perhaps it’s melting ice shelves and droughts or raging wildfires and floods. To see the large-scale manifestations of a warming planet, we need not look far. On a microscopic level, however, climate change paints a very different picture. For Dr Hannah Karuri, a nematologist and senior lecturer at Kenya’s University of Embu, the most harmful impacts of climate change are those that we cannot see nor feel – the invisible worms. Other/Unknown Material Ice Shelves University of Embu Institutional Repository Hannah ENVELOPE(-60.613,-60.613,-62.654,-62.654) |
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What comes to mind when you think of climate change? Perhaps it’s melting ice shelves and droughts or raging wildfires and floods. To see the large-scale manifestations of a warming planet, we need not look far. On a microscopic level, however, climate change paints a very different picture. For Dr Hannah Karuri, a nematologist and senior lecturer at Kenya’s University of Embu, the most harmful impacts of climate change are those that we cannot see nor feel – the invisible worms. |
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