murchr wrote:masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:My dear friends, allow me to think aloud, about what Dr. Ndii appears to be saying...
He appears to be saying that we have hunger issues because farmers can't get a competitive price for their food crops and therefore all that needs to be done is a way to be found for increasing income to farmers.
A quick calculation would imply subsidies. Because, if farmers aren't getting a good price for food crops now, assuming they're operating in a free market, then it's only a government intervention that can do the trick.
Therefore, we are hungry because we have no farm subsidies.
If this is true, then I can guess why @hardwood is clapping.
And I can forgive Dr. Ndii.
ukienda supermaket utakosa food? na hizi mikahawa zote? we are hungry because we cannot afford the food on sale.
Just for discussion
If we all didn't have to buy food from supermarkets would we die?
not related to discussion... All I am saying is... there is food somewhere - with a sticker price... at a micro level - if you have money to buy that food.. you will not be hungry. so 2 things can happen...
people (at a micro level) can figure out how to 'get that money'
or the sticker price can be lowered!
Kenya is a country of subsistence farmers who are apparently running away from planting foods that feed the rest of the subsistence farmers for 'Tea' because they want more money. And this 'more' money they are getting is not allowing them to get the foods that they stopped growing.
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!