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Underfunding agriculture poses wider food security risk

By Jackson Okoth

Kenya: Inadequate allocations by  some county governments to agriculture poses food security risk to the country, a top researcher has warned. Most counties allocated low revenue to agriculture — ranging from zero to 24 per cent,  despite  some allocating a considerable proportion of their expenditure to development.

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