Instead of wasting time fighting “maize/cereal gate”..food shortage, Kenya MPS can help their districts by converting CDF to grow food. It is ashame to see our politicians blaming accusing each other for the causes of food shortage and begging international communities to supply the country with food.It is no-brainer to see how schools or dispensaries built with CDF can be fully utilized if people are dying from hunger. What good does the school buildings do to the kids who cannot walk to school if they don’t have food at home and how much can dispensaries do when people are starving and dying from lack of nutrition.

Kenya MPs have the power and discretion to change and amend the laws to have CDF used to grow food in their districts immediately. The on going finger pointing or wasting time to find out who caused maize shortage or government setting food price is NOT solution to solve food shortage in Kenya. Any body who thinks that government price control on food will solve food shortage should at least pay attention to basic economic theory of (supply and demand). I am urging all Kenyans to go to their district offices to find out how much CDF are only parked for local infrastructures but none for food production. The solution to food shortage in your district does NOT rely with the President, Prime Minister or Ruto’s Ministry of agriculture but with your area/district MP. You elected these MPs to work for you and to solve problems and what is more important than helping people grow their own foods in these district. Don’t let your MP “wood wink” you by spending CDF in infrastructures alone…they have the power to redirect these funds to food food sector.

At the grass roots/village level, resident will have to consolidate their lands into at least 5-10 acres per group to improve economic of scale in food production. Agricultural students in public colleges can be used to help village farmers with simple irrigation techniques to grow the food in short term during their holidays or on weekends. These students comes from these communities and they are willing to give back to their communities. Finger pointing and assigning blame will NOT solve food shortage in this country..Ministers can be fired and be hired but if the country cannot increase food production starvation will only increase death and misery. It is up to ” wanainchi” to tell the MPS what they want done with CDF resources in this case food production. Remember MPS are NOT going hungry since you last elected them they pay has gone up to Sh.850,000 + a month..they can buy unga at any price!. Do something: call , talk to your MP, organize farmers in your village and volunteer to help your village in any way you can to solve this food crises in your village.

JD Brown

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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:07:07 -0500 [02:07:07 PM CST]
From: Dan Orao
Subject: USE CDF TO GROW FOOD IN YOUR DISTRICT