Using science to empower farmers: Hunting down the invisible worms threatening Kenyan crops

Abstract

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.