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The route to achieving food security
A pickup ferries cabbage to market in Nyeri town on November 18, 2022. Farmers who use irrigation to grow their crops are smiling all the way to the bank as a shortage of many commodities bites following the drought in the country. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG
During the French Revolution, Queen Marie-Antoinette is quoted as saying that “Let them eat cake,” in reference to her starving peasant who, at the time, had no bread.
Although her words illustrated her ignorance of the circumstances and the daily lives of the poor, she nevertheless demonstrates that food isn’t only bread.
