How can African farmers respond to the changing climate?
\u201cYou cannot rely on the rain to do farming. Either it\u2019s recurring drought or if rainfall comes, it floods. The seasons have become unpredictable.\u201d\n \nLast week on Africa Daily we heard about the drought in East Africa and the flooding in South Africa \u2013 both bringing misery to millions. Basic food supply becomes difficult.\n \nSo today Mpho Lakaje speaks to Abdi Hashi, a farmer and entrepreneur in Somaliland who has set himself a task: to help the breakaway state \u2013 which currently imports 80% of its food \u2013 to become more self-sufficient. Six years ago he bought up a parcel of arid and unused land that some had deemed unfarmable. Now he has eight greenhouses and eight acres of thriving farmland \u2013 and trains other small farmers to become more productive and resilient, and less reliant on the rain. \n \nAnd with the drought worsening, he tells us how his farm has become a stopping point for nomads from as far afield as Somalia and Ethiopia who are looking for water for their cattle.\n \nPresenter: Mpho Lakaje (@mpholakaje)\nGuest: Abdi Hashi (@HorngardensB)