How To Arrest Perennial Starvation

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We are in the betwixt and between a ravaging drought across the country. Food is in short supply and across the world, we are witnesses to the cruel reality of the vagaries of weather. The order of the universe, to say in whimsy, is, just about, agitated.

  

While this is the current set of circumstances, it is worth noting that this vexatious phenomenon has been with us for the past few years. It has been a year's failed crop after another. Our farmers' toil has gone to squander in the pitiless actuality of infecundity. It is this abscess that we must treat. To get started, we must interest the Government's thinking in the business of edifying our populace's means of productivity.

  

A rising tide doesn't raise people who don't have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide. Rahul Gandhi.

  

We need to equip our people. As the zephyr of tech sweeps across Silicon Savanna, we must equip our digital natives with the skills needed to enable them to compete in that space. Government must show intention and purpose to create an enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem that provides challenge funds and seed capital, nurture angel investments, and above all bring international best practices to our local economy. We need to pin down the opportunity that is our ebullient youth- and bluster it to potency.

  

We need to equip our people. Most of Laikipia's land mass falls between agro-climate zones 2 (Nyahururu), 3 (Ol Jabet, Ol Ng'arua areas), and 4(Vast Laikipia plains) and 5(towards Isiolo). Laikipia's soil is fertile, and in most areas, productive agriculture can be achieved through forthright irrigation, proper variety selection as well as conservational tillage. We must pioneer the most ambitious revolution in production acceleration. We will bolster the economics of agriculture.

  

Livestock, as a value chain, can employ thousands of our people. Fodder and feeds production present new opportunities in rangeland cultivation and manufacturing. Animal husbandry practices will be tailor-made with a focus on profits. Feedlot farming will gradually replace nomadic pastoralism.

  

Opportunities in renewable energy, recycling, and conservation have been on an upward trajectory in part because of advances in technology and increase focus and awareness. Advances in solar panel technology, storage batteries, and high-efficiency wind generators put renewable energy in the race to sustainably replace its traditional competitors. The economics of Renewable Energy continuously exceeds the industry's expectations.

  

We will therefore tailor our development agenda around water (for agricultural use), reclamation of range lands(for fodder production), technology(ICT, Internet, and Outsourcing), and Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar). Together, these enablers, when correctly blustered, will set us on a path to greatness.

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