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MPs push for new policy to protect agricultural land

Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi during the signing of the condolences book of the late Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature in Lavington, Nairobi. April 24, 2025 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

There are renewed calls for the formulation of a national land use policy aimed at safeguarding agricultural land, amid increasing subdivision for commercial and residential developments.

Westlands MP Tim Wanyonyi has tabled a motion in Parliament expressing concern over the country’s declining agricultural productivity, a trend partly attributed to the shrinking acreage of land under agriculture due to unplanned settlements encroaching on farmland.

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