Flipping the script on rainfall data – World | ReliefWeb
In the last few hours before COVID-19 locked the Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centers staff into remote work, a handful of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) researchers traveled to Kenya’s Makueni County with a dozen seemingly innocuous devices, roughly packed inside plain A4 paper boxes. Virtually unnoticed, they were on a mission to plant what they hope will become a game-changer in agricultural risk management: a set of unpretentious rain gauges.