As we enter our sixth year of drought more and more regions look to us for food assistance.
Although Kenya is rebounding from the crippling effects of Covid on its tourism sector, by the beginning of the rainy season the drought in the Horn of Africa looked like entering its sixth year, creating more food insecurity, water rationing, conflicts over livestock grazing, and extreme uncertainty in the agricultural sector, which accounts for one-third of the country’s GDP and employs 70% of the rural population. “We have to walk for seven kilometers to find water,and sometimes what we find isn’t safe to drink.” This dried-up river bed is this area’s only local source of water. I find it absolutely staggering how much the cost ofRead More