{"id":5972,"date":"2019-10-16T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"tackling-declining-food-production-poverty-in-populous-western-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/16\/tackling-declining-food-production-poverty-in-populous-western-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling Declining Food Production, Poverty In Populous Western Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nUN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have pockets of food insecurity. These can appear and develop for many reasons. And in some cases, simple nature-based solutions can make a significant difference in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vihiga\nCounty, western Kenya\u2014one of the most densely populated of the country\u2019s 47\ncounties with an average household farm size of 0.4 hectares\u2014is characterized\nby a high rate of population growth and dwindling farm sizes, and a land that\nis increasingly becoming uneconomical for farming. Pressure on land has led to\na decline in food production and an increase in poverty. As a result, people\nare now moving into Kakamega rainforest in search of land for farming and\nsettlement, causing severe destruction to the forest ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To tackle these problems, the county government of Vihiga, in February 2017, decided to prioritize the commercialization of African indigenous vegetables to boost farmers\u2019 incomes. Some 2,500 farmers have been recruited, in an exercise started in June 2018 to increase the production of these vegetables. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/tackling-declining-food-production-poverty-populous-western-kenya\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have pockets of food insecurity. These can appear and develop for many reasons. And in some cases, simple nature-based solutions can make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5973,"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-5972","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\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}