Last season’s drought did not wait for a policy paper. Neither did the floods that swept through towns and farms pause for board approvals. Through these severe weather events, climate change announced its arrival in Kenya, not as an abstract global concept, but as a lived, daily disruption to food prices, water access, jobs, and household stability. And nowhere is this reality more visible than in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, whose products move from farms to factories to family kitchens every day. For Kenya’s FMCG companies, which sit at the nerve centre of the economy, climate change is…
Author: By Mary-Anne Musangi
Last season’s drought did not wait for a policy paper. Neither did the floods that swept through towns and farms pause for board approvals. Through these severe weather events, climate change announced its arrival in Kenya, not as an abstract global concept, but as a lived, daily disruption to food prices, water access, jobs, and household stability. And nowhere is this reality more visible than in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, whose products move from farms to factories to family kitchens every day. For Kenya’s FMCG companies, which sit at the nerve centre of the economy, climate change is…