by Rachel Muthoni
-Kenya-

• Women at Paka, East Pokot, pick cabbages donated by farmers from Nyandarua and Nakuru counties. Photo by Rachel Muthoni. •

More than 3.6 million Kenyans are in urgent need of food assistance. Within Rift Valley, which has a population of about 10 million people, millions languish in hunger, depending only on relief food. Yet other Kenyans in the Valley are struggling to find ways to dispose of produce following a bumper harvest.

“I have been feeding my cattle with cabbages for lack of market. I had planted two acres of the produce and no one has bought a single piece,” says Michael Mwangi, a farmer at Taboga, Nakuru County.