FIGHTING HUNGER & POVERTY: GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED FERTILISER

Kenya’s Media space is saturated with tales of hunger, high food prices, double figure inflation, escalating unemployment, record layoffs and a looming economic meltdown. Whereas government spares no effort in assuring us that the current enigma is a result of a long drought and is a temporary inconvenience the reality is much more complex. For the last five years government has invested in mega-infrastructure in such an irrational and haphazard manner that it comes as no surprise that the expected dividend and return on the investment is fast evaporating into thin air.

 
When it comes to food production and security we have obviously not learned much, either from history, or best practices elsewhere. We are in a perpetual business-as-usual mode, faithfully repeating the mistakes of the past and attempting to implement untested policies, and blatantly using models that have failed elsewhere.