Max Pearson

A number of factors have combined together to create this current food crisis in Kenya.

We had an elder who committed suicide because all the animals died.

And that means to him that the source of livelihood has been lost and he didn't have hope.

I had 127 animals and I lost a big number of those animals.

Dalmas was left with only 14 cows.

One family had 200 before.

Then they had seven.

During the worst of the drought, some herders travelled long distances, crossing into Tanzania, searching for grass for the cattle to graze on or water to drink.

But the conditions were so harsh, many animals didn't survive.

One elder and a big number were saying, this is what the end of the world means.

It's an ecological, social and economic collapse of the Maasai.

So it basically means death.

I started hearing people saying we leave our villages and go to cities, look for jobs.

And the young people actually, even now, the majority of them have left rural areas to look for jobs, sometimes which are dangerous.

The land they were leaving behind was also suffering.

Wildlife have disappeared in many areas due to lack of vegetation.

And trees at the same time have dried up in many areas.

And then when it rains, we see a lot of floods happening.

In the following years, the extreme conditions continued and were talked about by Helen Clark from the United Nations after they launched their African Human Development Report in 2012.

What is changing is that these extremes happen more often and with greater intensity.