Only 20 per cent of Kenya's soil fit for cultivation

Nzioka Ngwasi, from Ngilani village who has rehabilitated a huge gulley that threatened to swallow the village. He's using the gullly water course to plant bananas, pasture, trees to hold soil together. The villagers have also directed most of storm waters from the roads into their farms to reduce erosion through the gulley. [Stephen Nzioka/ Standard]

A new report has raised concerns over the state of agricultural soil in Kenya, revealing that only 20 per cent of the country's soil is suitable for food production.

The Soil Atlas 2025, Kenya Edition, unveiled by the Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF) in Nairobi, highlights the alarming state of the soil health and its critical impacts on food and nutritional security.