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Originally published by Nation Newstop
April 24, 2026
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Extreme heat threatening food production systems, report warns

The number of days considered 'too hot to work' safely outdoors could rise to 250 per year, devastating productivity for manual-reliant smallholders...
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A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that extreme heat is posing a severe threat to global food production systems, with Kenya already experiencing significant impacts.
- The number of days considered 'too hot to work' safely outdoors could rise to 250 per year, severely impacting manual agricultural labor.
- The FAO and WMO highlight that rising temperatures are pushing livestock and fish populations towards their physiological limits, disrupting productivity.
- In Kenya, extreme weather events are more frequent and intense, leading to unpredictable rainfall, prolonged droughts, and soil degradation, affecting smallholder farmers most severely.
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