For years, farmer Reckadiuse Owino watched monkeys raid his maize fields in Got Osimbo, Kenya, destroying crops and threatening his family’s food supply. The problem became so severe that he eventually abandoned his farm. But a shift towards indigenous crops, including finger millet, sorghum and groundnuts, has given him a way to farm with fewer wildlife losses. His experience reflects a wider change among farmers in Siaya County, where traditional crops are also being used to cope with increasingly unpredictable rainfall and climate shocks.
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