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How we can achieve Big Four agenda on food security

The move by some pastoralist communities to embrace irrigation in crop farming as a way to combat hunger and its effects instead of solely depending on livestock rearing promises to improve food security.

According to research by the Frontier Counties Development Council, by January last year many livestock keepers had shifted  to crop production, especially in areas such as  Samburu, where irrigation projects helped alleviate hunger.

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