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Let’s do away with harmful pesticides

There are two routes for Kenya’s food and farming system. One, the industrial model of farming, which commodifies food systems and which has been fronted as the only way to produce plenty of cheap and easily accessible food.

The implication of this approach is damage to the same environment that feeds us and negative impacts on our health, particularly from the toxic agro-chemicals that industrial agriculture thrives on.

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