Kenya is set to import its first genetically modified maize, the trade cabinet secretary has said, as the government seeks to ease food shortages caused by the country's worst drought in 40 years.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Maize and Wheat Flour Market in Kenya, Forecast to 2020" report to their offering. The Kenyan maize and wheat flour ...

Samuel Wathome 65, a small-scale farmer inspects his crop at his maize farm where he plants indigenous seeds at Kyeleni village of Machakos Samuel Wathome 65, a small-scale farmer inspects his crop at ...

The elections in August offered Kenyans a temporary distraction from some of the challenges the country is facing. At the top of these challenges is food insecurity. In 2022, the country has ...

A cream-colored scoop of ugali (oo-gali) maize porridge sits in my plate— a round, stiff ball— its circumference saturated by a colorful mélange of greens and tomatoes, and a perfect pink snapper, ...

Workers sort good maize from cobs affected by MLND at Moi's Bridge in Uasin Gishu County. As many as 70 per cent of farmers in the main growing regions may have been affected by the virus. [PHOTO: ...

The Kenyan government has called on citizens to start consuming other food products such as rice and potatoes, and not ugali, or maize meal flour, the national staple food. A prolonged shortage of ...

Kenyans will now be forced to wait longer for a drop in the price of maize flour following the slow importation of the duty-free grain. Two months to the end of the gazetted period to import cheap ...

GITHONGO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dressed in a green hat and black mud boots, Gilbert Gitonga is busy tending his 3-acre (1.2-hectare) farm in Kenya’s Meru County. Moving among rows of ...

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MWEA, Kenya, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Dick Olela has been growing maize on his four-acre piece of land in the Migori county in western Kenya for the last three decades but fears his livelihood could be ...