Prices of foodstuffs including sukuma wiki (collard greens), matumbo (offal), beef and tomatoes rose the fastest in the past 10 years to 2021, hurting Kenyan households whose incomes barely increased in the period.
The prices of dry beans, maize flour, Irish potatoes, eggs and green grams also increased, underlining the country’s depressed agricultural production that has been aggravated by climate change with droughts occurring more frequently.
