Festive season needs planning

As consumers enter the holiday season expecting to indulge in heavy spending, there will be a shadow looming in the background. An update released last week by the World Bank shows that while the economy has crawled from under the effects of a crippling global recession, post-election violence, food shortage and drought, it is still deep in the woods.

Although expected to manage 3.5 per cent in Gross Domestic Product growth next year, this is not enough a momentum to feed a population that is adding more than one million people a year.