Nairobi, July 23 -- A new analysis warning that a Super El Niño could threaten 500 million farmers worldwide and wipe $342 billion from global agricultural output may sound like a future crisis.

For many Kenyan farmers, it is already today's reality. The warning underscores a lesson the agricultural sector can no longer ignore: climate resilience is no longer an environmental add-on. It has become the foundation of agricultural productivity.

About 98 percent of Kenya's agriculture is rain-fed, meaning a failed rainy season can determine an entire harvest.

Drought has already devastated livestock herds in Turkana and Marsabit, while climate stress in Tana River has reduced pasture, milk production and household food security. Famil...