Invest in water pans to boost agricultural production

Food security is among President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda. Others are affordable universal health care, affordable housing and enhanced manufacturing.

Our food security situation remains unstable. The reason is simple; while agricultural production has been going down, population growth continues to run in the opposite direction. The result is food shortages. This situation is made worse by erratic weather patterns that scientists blame on global warming, a phenomenon that affects how and when regions receive rains.