Agriculture being the the backbone of our economy saw a massive campaign to save, among others, our forests, water reserves and catchment areas and most crucial, soil, whose erosion was washing away vital nutrients integral to sustainable food security. That last sentence sounds like a report from an NGO battling hunger in some God-forsaken yam belt of taifa tukufu. Which reminds one of the irony of Kenya being an 'agri-conomy,' but citizens experience hunger with food aid coming to their rescue.

Fighting soil erosion

Lake Turkana for instance has dried every 30 years since Noah escaped the floods. Fergusson Gulf, the source of 80 per cent of the lake's fish, dried in 1924, 1954 and 1984, which were also drought years. The Turkana, a proud pastoral community, are Kenya's most food aid dependent community who are also worst hit by droughts that come calling every decade - 1954, 1964, 1974, 1984, 1994 and 2004 - when over 3 million people risk death by starvation.