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Kenya: The most biting shortage during a dry spell, like the one we experienced recently, is scarcity of vegetables. Yet it does not have to be like that; it shows how unprepared we are even for short time crises. Every year, Kenya experiences drought in the first two months of the year.
Our reasoning is that it will rain soon and there will be plenty of sukuma wiki, managu, saga and terere. However, this year the drought extended beyond the expected period and that created a vegetable crisis. Three leaves of sukuma wiki were retailing at Sh5 and you were lucky to get the veggies.
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