Keny Food Secure Or Insecure - 1737 Words

Kenya: Food Secure or Insecure? Kenya has an extremely diverse nature to it. On one hand, Kenya has an unemployment rate of 40 percent and 43 percent of the people living in Kenya are impoverished, and on the other hand Kenya has a plateau region that is very fertile and the people in Kenya grow a variety of agriculture products, such as beef, eggs, poultry, coffee, tea, corn, wheat, and sugarcane. Even though Kenya has some fertile land, they have been experiencing a severe drought that continues to devastate the economy and when it does rain, there is frequent flooding due to the location of the country. For all of these reasons and many more, Kenya is vastly different, but at the same time quite similar to the United States in not only†¦show more content†¦One factor is that many people in Kenya are Christian and either belong to the Protestant or Catholic faith (The World Factbook). This is probably the main reason why women have about 4 children each; it’s neither an outrageous number nor an ex tremely low insignificant number. The low population growth rate, low median age, and low life expectancy can be accounted for by the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country. Over 1.6 million people in Kenya have either HIV or AIDS (The World Factbook). In addition to HIV/AIDS being a problem in this country, other diseases that are prevalent and often very serious are malaria, typhoid fever, and hepatitis A (The World Factbook). Another factor that plays a role in those figures and also the death rate is the fact that Kenya spends only 4.5 percent of their GDP on healthcare and has less than one doctor per 1,000 population (The World Factbook). One reason children that the children only go to school for about 11 years is because the country only spends about 6.4 percent of their GDP on education (The World Factbook). Kenya is a low-income, food-deficit country. In 2004, more than ten million people in Kenya were experiencing chronic hunger. Food insecurity in Kenya is mainly due to the fact that the agricultural sector of Kenya’s economy usually performs extremely poorly. However, problems with obtaining access to food also contribute greatly to the