Impact of Climate Change Adaptive Strategie on Food Security in Kaloleny County

Indigenous coping strategies could cause potential risks on hydrology, soil degradation, Biodiversity and crop yields, which would influence food safety in Kenya. However there’s little information on assessing these strategies and their impact across the four Agro-ecological Zones in Kaloleni County. The main objective of this study was to assess the climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies used by communities in Kaloleni County with an aim of identifying the most suitable strategy per given zone. The majority of the respondents (75%) had 10 to over 20years experience in farming; this shows that quite a good number of the respondents had good farming experience and hence information on the indigenous coping strategies used over the given years. A larger percentage of the respondents were small holder farmers as it was evident from the majority (59%) who owned between 1-5 Acres of land, followed by 11% of the respondents who owned between 5-20Acres, while only 2% owned 20-80Acres of land.58% of the smallholder farmers use intercropping and fertilizer application as coping strategy to crop production, followed by 21% who had used fallowing and mulching. Impact on vegetation distribution (1980-2010