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Food prices set to spiral amid failed rains, inflation woes

Fruits and vegetable seller arranges her goods in Langata estate,Nairobi.[FILE]

Esther Njeri walks through her smallholder farm in Karati, Naivasha, the cracked earth crunching under her feet.

The withered kale and cabbage seedlings tell a story of another failed season - the October-December "short rains" have barely come, threatening her family's food supply and income for the coming year. 

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