It is within this global framework that I cannot really make sense of President Kenyatta’s focus on “food security” as a major pillar of his plans for the next five years. Our real problem, when it comes to agriculture policy, is not that of a shortage of food, since the government can always buy food on the global markets to meet any anticipated shortfall. Subsistence crops may give the peasantry ‘food security, but they do not offer a path to any meaningful prosperity. But there are other — and much cheaper — solutions to any impending food shortage the country may face. And this is the challenge that the President has skillfully avoided with his talk of food security”.

Source: The Star January 31, 2018 20:37 UTC