Is There A Food Crisis In The Making?
Hunger will be defined differently, we will no longer see the dying malnourished sad faces of starving kids, but one of food in stores with people with no money to purchase the food, riots as people force the government to bring prices down, long queues for food, insecurity and worse still total anarchy as the countries spiral out of control Admittedly I have being engrossed elsewhere, the recent cabinet fiasco, the Elitist Obama and the Safaricom IPO, that something else is happening, Kenya is tip toeing at the brink of a food disaster. Prices of food have steadily been rising across the globe, with the price of Thai rice, used as a benchmark for the price of rice having shot up to around 75 percent, and with the same token the price of wheat has climbed by 120 percent over the past year, more than doubling the price of bread in most countries. In Kenya the price of the same commodities has gone up about 20 to 30 percent, but has been masked by the current political instability, We sh...