With the effects of climate change all too apparent nowadays Kahangi Estate took action to minimize this both on the farm and for the local community. This was achieved by an aggressive tree planning program at the farm as the following sequence of pictures document

Kahangi Estate is well aware of the challenges that Climate Change presents for the future. The Estate maintains its own advanced electronic weather station and has been active in tracing historical weather records for the area. This has allowed the Estate to design a farm system which will reduce the impact of climate fluctuations.

The monitoring systems allow the Estate to not only record weather data but actively measure the impacts of environmental changes made on the farm to reduce the impacts of climate fluctuation. In one example, as the graph shows, we have reduced the yearly average wind speed at the farm from 4kph to 0.8 kph in 15 years. This has resulted in a reduction in evapo-transpiration of 180mm which calculates to a saving of 275 million liters of water losses over the Estate. Restoring a forest production system and preventing water loss is a far more environmentally friendly way of combating climate change rather than pumping the underground aquas dry.

The Estate collaborates with other partners, in using its experiences to assist in the training of smallholder farmers to also minimize the impact of climate fluctuation.