
Food Crisis Kenya







Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has urged Kenyans to embrace eating other foods apart from maize. He said it was good to embrace them especially now.

Kenya's inflation rates hits a record new high of 7.9% in June 2022 up from from 7.1% in recorded in May as the prices of household items increased by 9.2%.

Tanzania doubled the export fee by 93% in a move that has hit maize millers in Kenya who depend on the imported maize amidst increasing basic commodity prices.

World Bank unveiled KSh 270.5 billion to tackle food shortages in Eastern and Sothern Africa as part of its nine-year intervention programme starting June 2022.

The fallout from the war in Ukraine remains a threat as it has driven up prices for wheat, other key agricultural products,sparking fears of famine in countries

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) report showed that cash circulating outside the banking system hit a four-month high to April 2022, growing by KSh 3.69 billion.

Drought situation in Kenya continued to bite in the month of June due to bellow average rain and increased the number of Kenyans in need of food to 4.1 million.

Kenyan manufacturers and importers are facing a dollar crisis. The shortage has already affected Pwani Oil forcing it to temporarily shut its plant in Mombasa.

The World Bank projected the world economy to grow by 2.9% in June 2022 down from 4.1% estimated in January 2022 due to Russia-Ukraine war and COVID-19 damage.
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