(15 Mar 2025)
KENYA CRICKET FARMING
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Laikipia, Kenya – 20 February 2025
1. Wide of Rosemary Nenini, cricket farmer, going to milk cattle
2. Various of Nenini milking cattle
3. Wide of Nenini and other cricket farmers going inside cricket shelter
4. Various of Nenini placing cotton wool soaked in water inside cricket container
5. Various of crickets
6. Various of Nenini feeding crickets with vegetables
7. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Rosemary Nenini, cricket farmer:
"I come from a pastoralist family. My father used to have a lot of cattle, and I also married into a pastoralist family. I love cattle very much, but they face many challenges. During drought, most of them die and also during heavy rains, they contract diseases, they lack enough feed. They are not safe because of bandits who steal them. Those are the challenges that have made me love cricket farming because cricket rearing does not require a lot of land, you are not required to move from one place to another, it does not take long because you do not need to go into the forest to look for feed. All you need is to build a shelter and feed them."
8. Various of crickets
9. Various of women looking after crickets
10. Various of crickets
11. Various of women looking at cotton wool where crickets lay eggs for hatching
12. Close of cricket eggs on cotton wool
13. Mid of Jennifer Sintaloi, cricket farmer, placing cotton wool water balls
14. Mid of cotton wool water balls being placed
15. Close of cotton water ball
16. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Jennifer Sintaloi, cricket farmer:
"We believed crickets were a bad thing. We used to say that if crickets come to our homes, they will kill our cattle. Anytime we saw a cricket near our homes, we would kill it. But later on, we were educated that it is of value, and we informed everyone at home that cricket is not dangerous."
17. Various of traditional homes
18. Various of women going inside cricket shelter
19. Various of women looking after crickets
20. Various of crickets
21. Various of Tonou Masaine, cricket farmer, feeding crickets
22. Mid of flour to feed crickets
23. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Tonou Masaine, cricket farmer:
"When they came to teach us, the Maasai, about crickets, we were shocked. What is this cricket? At first, we did not agree with the teachings. Why are we being taught about crickets? How will crickets help us? But when we agreed to be trained, we understood its value and we know it will help us in the future."
25. Mid of women looking after crickets
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 24 February
26. Various of crickets
27. Various of Shaphan Chia, research scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, looking at crickets
28. Various of crickets
29. Mid of Chia
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Shaphan Chia, research scientist at International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
31. Various of final products made from crickets
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
In the arid regions of Northern Kenya, where pastoralism has been a way of life for centuries, women are looking for alternative livelihoods.
Faced with the devastating impacts of climate change, including prolonged droughts, some are turning to cricket farming as a sustainable alternative for nutrition and income.
STORYLINE:
Rosemary Nenini watched helplessly as her husband’s cattle perished daily during a drought that lasted from 2020 to 2022.
Raised in a pastoralist family and married into one, Nenini has a deep love for cattle.
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