We seriously need to think and act on water security and greenhouse/irrigation farming. Any skunk who has invested in agriculture should upgrade their farming practices as an example. Lets not stick to this habit of heavily relying on manual production methods and then calling it kazi kwa vijana. mechanized agriculture + other improved farming practices will definitely increase our agricultural yield, and lead to farming in the ASAL classified regions! 2009/7/9 aki <aki275@googlemail.com>
Four million people living in the grinding poverty of Nairobi’s huge and overcrowded urban slums are on the brink of a massive food crisis. Because they are already so poor and their living conditions already so bad, this deadly threat is hard for the outside world to see. Concern has launched a report urging an immediate response – before it is too late. In just two "neighorhoods" of Kibera slum, the report commissioned by Concern, Care, and Oxfam revealed that more than 5,000 children under five years old are currently suffering from malnutrition, with one-fifth of these suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Food shortages have been exacerbated by drought and poor harvests. Cooking fuel prices have risen by 30-50 percent, and the cost of water has more than doubled.
full story here : http://www.concernusa.org/Public/News.aspx?Id=739
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