Kenyan middlemen killing research funds flow to researchers.

Africa Climate Conversations.

Professor Paul Kimani, a plant breeder and lecturer at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences at Kenya's University of Nairobi, has extensively researched a variety of drought-tolerant beans in Kenya. Over the years, his research has been made possible by funds from overseas. Professor Kimani says the Kenyan government has tried funding research, but intermediaries are killing the research flows between government and the researchers. “The current government allocated five billion to research, but 4.5 billion was returned to treasury as researchers could not access it. How do you convince the same government to allocate another fund when what is provided to you was not used” asks professor Kimani. What needs to be done? How is this impacting availability of climate change data in Kenya? Listen to our conversation.