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2022 Lenten Campaign Week 4: Food Security

Posted on
Mar
26

Food security is threatened by non-implementation of the existing policies, natural disasters such as floods, drought, COVID-19, and
corruption. This has left farmers staring at withering crops in their farms. In recognition of agriculture as a major contributor to food security, several African heads of state and government met in Maputo in 2003, and signed the Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa. The declaration required the members of the Africa Union to commit to allocate at least 10 per cent of their national
budgetary resources to agriculture and rural development policy implementation within five years. Although Kenya is a signatory, it is yet to fully fulfill its commitment. Although agriculture is a devolved function, all counties are becoming more food insecure. None has managed to attain the least required budgetary allocation. Individuals practicing small-scale farming, as well as multinational corporations are urged to consider sustainable farming methods which also serve to care for our common home. The pandemic has also proved to the whole world the interconnectedness between individuals, nations, people and things.

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