Politics and policy
Smallholder farmers hold the key to global food security
Farmers preparing their harvest in Nyeri. Although they receive little attention from policymakers, small-scale farmers feed most of the world’s one billion poor people. Photo/FILE
By SAMMY CHEBOI and ILRI
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Posted Monday, February 22 2010 at 00:00
Posted Monday, February 22 2010 at 00:00
Today, some 218 million Africans are hungry every day, and 38 per cent of children under five suffer from malnutrition.
Ironically, hunger and malnutrition is most acute among the families of rural farmers, who have struggled for decades without support of any kind.
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