Pesticides in the Kenyan Market
The use of hazardous pesticides to produce food has come under increased scrutiny around the world and in Kenya. Alongside
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Food and Farming Science
Pesticides myths and a Kenyan call for agroecology
Food security is not mutually exclusive from food safety. Kenya has an unfortunate track record when it comes to food
Read MorePesticides in Kenya: Where are we?
The heavy use of pesticides in industrial and domestic settings has resulted in negative health, environmental and economic consequences worldwide.
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Keep off toxic pesticides from the succulent tomato and the leafy sukuma wiki
Most households in Kenya will not go a day without consuming tomatoes and sukuma wiki (kales). The two vegetables, which are popular
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The case of GMOs in Uganda: A strong regulatory environment must be a prerequisite
The impression being created is that GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are about food security and survival, yet experience shows that
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The True Price Of Pesticides Is Unaffordable
NAIROBI – A mounting body of evidence suggests that industrial agriculture is failing the planet and its people. In particular,
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Beyond the hustle and towards a new philosophy for agriculture
The COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to renew our relationship with nature as the living system on which we depend,
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Agroecology offers local solutions to pave the road to agricultural sustainability
Amidst accelerating and converging health, climate, ecological, economic, financial and food system crises, the need to radically reconceive and change
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Nourishment in the time of COVID
COVID-19 has offered us an invitation to re-think our relationship with food as a source of nourishment, recognising that food
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The future is in organic farming
If veteran Los Angeles Times journalist and author David Lamb had met a group of peasant farmers in Laikipia before
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