Farmers suffer as food imports dominate Kenyan dinner tables

food market prices


The Standard | by Awal Mohammed


For many families across the country, the government’s campaign of ‘Buy Kenya Build Kenya’ remains only a slogan.

According to the 2020 Economic Survey, the country’s reliance on foreign foodstuff posted a sharp increase and Kenya’s import dependency ratio (IDR) worsened from 15.4 per cent in 2018 to 16.4 per cent in 2019…

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