Reading Time: 3 minutes Gracie is part of a group I call Urban Kitchen Gardeners. They grow crops in small spaces. For example, Gracie cultivates in vertical sacks. Her house and farm are on a 50by100 space along Kangundo Road. Vertical farming increases the amount of produce per square foot.
The Food Safety Tax: Why getting good food from the vendor next door matters
Reading Time: 4 minutes Be very worried if you cannot walk into the shop next door and get quality, safe food. Here is why:
Ugali Consumption along Class Lines: Policy approaches to reduce maize dependency
Reading Time: 6 minutes Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture asked Kenyans to substitute maize with potatoes or rice. Many interpreted this as “eat cake” But what if? Can consumer-level policies reduce maize dependency?