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New policy to protect farmland

Kenya: The Government plans to create new areas to settle farmers and consolidate agricultural land to boost food production.

The move is a reaction to concerns that productive land, particularly in coffee and tea-growing areas, is being overly subdivided and being turned into real estate, contributing to food insecurity, among other economic imbalances in the country.

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