Kenya will remain food insecure if we do not embrace irrigation

Lolupe villagers in Turkana County at an irrigation farm harvesting their vegetables. [File, Standard]

While the National Drought Management Authority has warned of worsening drought and food shortages, it is not lost on us that this is a perennial problem that the national government has failed to address.

In April this year, the meteorological department warned that the expected long rains period would fail due to events in the Indian Ocean that resulted in cyclone Idai and, indeed, that came to pass. The cyclone resulted in low atmospheric pressure that could not push rain clouds north of Mozambique where Idai caused devastation in March.