Sunday 11 January 2009

Kenya to declare food emergency

Here we go again!!

The BBC reports that the Kenyan Government is to declare a national emergency due to drought.

President Mwai Kibaki's government warned that nearly 10 million people - more than a quarter of the population - were at risk from food shortages.

But even where food is in reasonable supply, prices have already shot through the roof during the past couple of months and we are struggling to feed our kids, despite the fact that Kisii is situated in one of the most fertile areas of Kenya, supply and demand, I suppose.

Food shortages are believed to be caused also by suppliers hoarding, forcing the prices up - some people are willing to make a quick buck out of other people's suffering - not just in Kenya, but the world over.

We need help to buy food and also to get the River Cottage Kenya farm up and running. I am sure that we could be self-sufficient by this time next year with a little help.

Can you help us? Do you know someone who can?

2 comments:

Brigid said...

I often think that people in power, (of any kind) are the greediest of all.
And I also ask this question, how can anyone ever stand by and see children starve? Yet most of us see this everyday and walk by.
How very inhuman humans really are.
Regards Brigid

BabaMzungu said...

Hi Brigid
See my post on A Tool-using Thing-maker, http://babamzungu.wordpress.com/
or the article in today's Daily Nation, http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/513534/-/u190qp/-/index.html