Creating wealth by feeding Kenya

Last month, eight in ten Kenyans were able to put food on their tables through agriculture-enabled livelihoods. Tragically, last night, 1.6 million Kenyans may not have had food on their tables. In 2015, a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office estimated that food insecurity was likely to affect 1.6 million Kenyans. The hunger in the country may be even more compounded by the increased cost of living. There are many Kenyans, especially in urban centres who appear well fed but are in reality struggling with hunger, yet food is a basic need and right for all.

Kisii County is facing this challenge of hunger head-on. Undeterred by scarcity of land, the County Government has set up a greenhouse demonstration centre at the Kisii Agriculture Training Centre. It is now up scaling this by establishing a greenhouse demo farm in each of the 45 wards in the county.