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What are the measures of ensuring food security at the family level in Kenya?

List measures of ensuring food security at the family level in Kenya.

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Maurice
(i) Increase accessibility to farming loans/ economic empowerment.

(ii) Improve/ develop infrastructure to facilitate transportation of food.

(iii) Encourage family planning to have small families that are easy to feed.

(iv) Improve food storage systems.

(v) Strategic/ sufficient food reserves/ preservation of surplus food.

(vi) Environmental conservation/ conservation of water catchment areas to ensure reliable rainfall.

(vii)Political stability/ conflict prevention/ resolutions.

(viii) Encourage modern farming practices/ government to put in place agricultural extension officers to educate farmers on good/ modern farming practices.

(ix) Provide credit facilities to farmers to enable them purchase farm inputs.

(x) Transparency in public institutions.

(xi) Improve early warning systems on weather change.

(xii) Rehabilitation of watering points/ sink boreholes.

(xiii) De-stocking during times of drought/ maintain strategic stock among pastoralists/ proper stocking rate.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on August 25, 2017 at 14:15

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