Good policies needed to attain food security

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy, contributing 30 per cent to GDP, but we are a food deficient country; meeting the needs of our growing population through formal and informal imports of maize as well as rice and wheat.

By the definition of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), food security is a situation in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food in sufficient quantities and quality so that nobody suffers hunger, and the food should not cause health complications resulting from quality issues.