Warning! Food shortage to hit Kenya early next year

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The weatherman reports keep worrying Kenyans who are used to outdoor events during the Christmas holidays. However now among the crisis that will hit most spenders is not only school fees for January but also in addition food security according to latest reports.

Dry conditions in parts of Kenya are likely to result in significantly smaller harvests in the first few months of 2019, a US-funded food security monitoring network warned on Friday.

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“Crop production in Somalia and Kenya is expected to be at least 30 percent below average, and pasture and water availability is likely to be well below average throughout the region,” the East Africa alert issued by the Famine Early Warning System said.

“Should this forecast come to fruition, historical trends indicate that food security outcomes could rapidly worsen.”

“Humanitarians should prepare for an increase in need throughout 2019,” the network, which is operated by the US Agency for International Development, urged.Do you trust the Kenyan government to plan ahead of this prediction and be ready when the crisis comes?

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Food short fall may be particularly acute in Kitui, Makueni, Taita-Taveta counties the alert added.

Recent rainfall totals place the current short rain season among the three driest experienced in Kenya’s southeastern lowlands in the past 40 years, the monitors noted.

Little relief is expected in the coming months. Despite a forecast of increased rainfall in the first half of this month, “below average crop production and below average pasture and water availability remain the most likely scenario,” the alert stated.

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“Rainfall is forecast to cease before late December as tropical rainfall systems shift southward earlier than normal.”

In the release of an earlier weather report, pastoralists were called upon to seek advice from the livestock sector to avert any loss of their animals.

The department also called on the Health ministry to enhance surveillance of highland malaria in regions expected to receive above-normal rainfall as well as the possible rise in diseases associated with poor sanitation such as typhoid and cholera.

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