Moonki - here is how m-pesa is helping fight drought and hunger in kenya

[RV Pundit]

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[Globalcitizen12]

M-Pesa is a good tool but it should not be taken a Policy against drought. Increasing subsidies in Agriculture is the way to go..

[gout]

Subsidies have done very little to help agricultural productivity. Due to the consequent corruption, they have spelt doom for some sectors such as sugarcane, coffee; rather efforts such as KTDA, building the fertiliser making plant, kwale sugar belt, galana kulalu are the way to go

[Globalcitizen12]

Subsidies have done very little to help agricultural productivity. Due to the consequent corruption, they have spelt doom for some sectors such as sugarcane, coffee; rather efforts such as KTDA, building the fertiliser making plant, kwale sugar belt, galana kulalu are the way to go

writing off a debt is not subsidy.. offering inputs subsidies and encouraging large scale private farms is what GOK should do

[RV Pundit]

Drought & Starvation has little to do with availability of food or agriculture. This is more a natural disaster and how we can quickly respond to this. long term would be to find these people alternative livehood. I am talking about 1/3 of kenya who live in semi and arid places.

[hk]

Food is readily available in Kenya. There's no one who has starved to death with money in their pocket. People aren't dying cause drought but cause of poverty. Next year rainy season the same areas will have floods yet no dams will be constructed. Kenyans have been subsidising maize and sugar cane farmers for decades by buying those products at inflated prices yet production keeps on going down.

[RVtitem]

This was supposed to be a joke. It's similar to the myth that kenya is about to lip-frog to first world status through MPESA.

[patel]

let me read this one more time, could be comprehension problem...

Food is readily available in Kenya. There's no one who has starved to death with money in their pocket. People aren't dying cause drought but cause of poverty. Next year rainy season the same areas will have floods yet no dams will be constructed. Kenyans have been subsidising maize and sugar cane farmers for decades by buying those products at inflated prices yet production keeps on going down.