Isaiah Esipisu is a professional journalist trained at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC). A Kenyan national, he started writing newspaper articles in 1999 while still in college. Since then, he has remained a freelance science journalist focusing on environmental issues, health, agriculture and technology. Isaiah has published articles in a wide range of print and online publications within Kenya as well as internationally – include Reuters AlertNet, Inter Press Service, SPORE (CTA) Magazine, the UK-based New Internationalist, Kenyan Daily Nation newspaper, The East African, The Standard, Kenya News Agency, People Daily, and AgroLink, among others. Together with five other journalists, Esipisu has published a photography book titled ‘The Kindest Cut’ featuring Male Circumcision as a preventive measure against to HIV infection.
NAIROBI, Mar 2 (IPS) – At Gakoromone Market in Meru, in Kenya’s Eastern Province, Ruth Muriuki arrives in a pickup full of tomatoes and cabbages despite the scarcity of rainfall in the area, thanks to the greenhouse technology she uses on her farm – and microcredit. “A bundle of ten tomatoes which would cost Sh40
A farmer works in his field at the Kondo farm in Eldoret 400km (248 miles) west of the capital Nairobi on April 27, 2010. REUTERS/Noor Khamis By Isaiah Esipisu EMUHAYA, Kenya (AlertNet) – In Essong’olo village, some 32 km west of Kenya’s Kisumu city, Japheth Olukune Akhati and his neighbours are busy tilling their small
A Nepalese farmer scatters fertiliser on a field in Bhaktapur, Dec. 2, 2011. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar Source: Alertnet // Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Coping with the impacts of climate change and trying to stop them getting much worse is already one of the world’s biggest concerns. But scientists at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Lukmanu Whumbi, a farmer in Northern Ghana, points to fields of rice grown using the right inputs and techniques. Credit:Isaiah Esipisu/IPS Buy this picture TAMALE, Ghana, Dec 21, 2011 (IPS) – In Dundo village in Nyankpala district, Northern Ghana, 10 women are busy weeding a rice field on a piece of land donated to them
Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. Credit:Isaiah Esipisu/IPS Buy this picture NAIROBI, Dec 12, 2011 (IPS) – On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three
Nalifu Yussif holds a few Bolga baskets at the ongoing COP 17 in Durban, South Africa. Credit:Isaiah Esipisu/IPS Buy this picture DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – Talata Nsor, a 54-year-old woman from Bolgatanga community in Northern Ghana, has been weaving the cultural Bolga baskets, which are named after her community, her entire
