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Business Today - 12th March 2018 - [Part 2] - Discussion of Food Security in Kenya

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Channel: KTN Entertainment · 2018 · News & Politics

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The short-rains season held promise for most of the drought-affected pastoral and marginal agricultural households, after rains began on time. Since then, excessive rains have mitigated the anticipated improvements in food security, especially in the eastern pastoral areas where the adverse impacts of flooding include displacement of households, upsurge in water and vector borne diseases, limited access to markets, impassable roads and loss of life. The recent outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) has resulted in the closure of key livestock markets as well as a ban on movement and slaughter of animals, accentuating the precarious status of pastoralists' welfare that almost exclusively depends on livestock as the principal source of food and income. The impact is particularly severe for pastoralists in the northeast (see Figure 1). In other pastoral areas of the northwest and the south, food security conditions have greatly improved, and recovery from previous droughts is likely to start, should the 2007 long-rains season be normal. In addition, national crop output is expected to be significantly higher than normal due to two consecutive favorable cropping seasons. Food prices, now close to the five year average, are expected to decline even further, benefiting market-dependent, deficit-producing households that have been affected by several seasons of drought over the past three years.



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