Kenya Working on Ways to Avoid Maize Shortages as Prices Rise Kenya
, although the result of a"perfect storm", will be high on the agenda for the new administration, which has promised to develop a lasting solution.
The Covid-19 pandemic, droughts registered in the past four decades and the Russian war in Ukraine affected supply not only of grains, but also of key inputs such as fertiliser. These shocks occurred simultaneously. But long-standing issues in Kenya must be resolved anyway if the country is to be self-sufficient in staples, such as maize., this has come primarily from area expansion rather than from productivity increases. There is a need to support county governments to revive extension and advisory systems.
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