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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: MOON Ki on September 29, 2017, 05:11:41 AM
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Considering that maize and its by-products are Kenya’s staple foods, the Ministry of Agriculture should have invested in an early warning system to trigger an alarm whenever the supply of the commodities reduce to the point of risking mass hunger.
Because that has not been done, Kenya finds itself facing a precarious supply of maize and related food products.
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Going forward, long-term solutions need to be adopted to end the country’s perennial vulnerability to hunger.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/editorial/State-should-avert-hunger-/440804-4116544-25utr7z/index.html
Standard line. Every 18-24 months. Regular like clockwork. What's a good definition of "learning-proof"?
But not to worry. There's plenty of "development" all around: SGR is here, more skyscrapers are coming, Safaricom just moved a ton more money through MPESA, ... , toddlers might be suffering from malnutrition but look at how happy they are banging away at their laptops!.
It's also not as though the wananchi are exactly worked up about empty bellies. Not when politics is so hot. We'll eat after the 26th. And then there are all those countries that once were starving and then---suddenly and just like that!---they were no longer starving. The "perennial" problem will solve itself. Or something.
Peace, Love, and Unity. Redux.
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..and then to add to that list, I saw a video clip of a Wanjiku crying that her toddler was sick last night and she took her to the hospital just to be turned away at the gates that there were no doctors and that the nurses werre on strike. As a parent I cannot even begin to imagine how helpless and painful that would be.
Considering that maize and its by-products are Kenya’s staple foods, the Ministry of Agriculture should have invested in an early warning system to trigger an alarm whenever the supply of the commodities reduce to the point of risking mass hunger.
Because that has not been done, Kenya finds itself facing a precarious supply of maize and related food products.
...
Going forward, long-term solutions need to be adopted to end the country’s perennial vulnerability to hunger.
http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/editorial/State-should-avert-hunger-/440804-4116544-25utr7z/index.html
Standard line. Every 18-24 months. Regular like clockwork. What's a good definition of "learning-proof"?
But not to worry. There's plenty of "development" all around: SGR is here, more skyscrapers are coming, Safaricom just moved a ton more money through MPESA, ... , toddlers might be suffering from malnutrition but look at how happy they are banging away at their laptops!.
It's also not as though the wananchi are exactly worked up about empty bellies. Not when politics is so hot. We'll eat after the 26th. And then there are all those countries that once were starving and then---suddenly and just like that!---they were no longer starving. The "perennial" problem will solve itself. Or something.
Peace, Love, and Unity. Redux.
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At least there are some farmers who have learnt from drought experience http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/Stung-drought-farmers-invest-animal-feed/1950774-4092206-o1v2s3/index.html . If we can get more pastoralist communities to just invest in fodder we wouldn't have the biggest subsector in agriculture on it knees after every drought.
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This is very true in most of rural RV - people are now making and buying hay & silage. The problems where milk production would drop btw Jan - April is soon going to be over. If only people elsewhere could adopt the simple techniques of turning grass & weed to hay - we would be start conquering drought in dairy & livestock sector.
At least there are some farmers who have learnt from drought experience http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/Stung-drought-farmers-invest-animal-feed/1950774-4092206-o1v2s3/index.html . If we can get more pastoralist communities to just invest in fodder we wouldn't have the biggest subsector in agriculture on it knees after every drought.