National Food Strategy: Kenya's Approach to the Problem of Feeding the Nation
Abstract
What Africa needs in terms of real development is milk powder and food grains, not gun powder. There is a dire need for the political and military leadership in Africa to focus on agricultural growth and be able to feed her population and stop relying on famine relief, food importation and aid while they continue to amass arsenals of military equipment, thus draining their meagre foreign exchange. Kenya's political leadership, having realized the profound impact of insecurity which is usually caused by poverty and hunger, has refocused her renewed economic growth up to the year 2000 on agriculture and self sufficiency in food grain. The current population of 23.1 million people will be approximately 38.3 million people by the year 2000 and this trend requires advancement in agriculture production. President Hon Daniel T. Arap Moi has set the pace for the renewed growth by stating that The most important 'ism' for Kenyans is the 'Tumbo' (stomach) ideology. Application of other 'isms' when stomachs are empty is irrelevant. This is a simple political message--that the country has to produce food to feed her people. (sdw)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA220586
Entities
People
- Brigadier H. Njoroge
Organizations
- United States Army War College