{"id":3208,"date":"2019-06-20T07:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"how-kenya-land-system-has-killed-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/how-kenya-land-system-has-killed-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"How Kenyans land system has killed agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\nyou can easily get an acre of good farmland for between Sh200,000 and Sh400,000\nin many parts of the US, you need between Sh1 million and Sh10 million to get\nthe same size in the high-potential areas of Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHEAPER\nIMPORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\nwhile the farmer in the US will get subsidies and other incentives, her\ncounterpart in Kenya will instead have to battle, often single-handedly, some\nof the harshest farming conditions anywhere and, as if that is not bad enough,\nbe saddled with all manner of taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to\nbreak even, she has to sell her produce at prohibitive prices that are no match\nfor cheaper imports from Uganda, Tanzania and even China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These,\nand other absurdities, are the reasons Kenya\u2019s agriculture will keep stagnating\nand the country continue to be fed by its neighbors, experts warn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDespite\nthe fact that Kenya and other African economies rely on agriculture, their\nfarmland is not defined and protected,\u201d notes Mr. Henry Kinyua, the East Africa\nhead of Digital Green, an organization that empowers smallholder farmers by\nharnessing technology and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/How-Kenya-land-system-has-killed-agriculture\/1056-5163922-l14i9k\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation While you can easily get an acre of good farmland for between Sh200,000 and Sh400,000 in many parts of the US, you need between Sh1 million and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}