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1. Cost of living- Kenya has just come from one of the worst drought in recent years which saw people and livestock die of starvation and thousands in need of food relief.The price of sugar, maize flour, beans and sukuma wiki have increased respectively over the past years.
2. Poor Harvest- The high cost of food saw inflation jump 11.48 per cent to in April from 10.28 per cent in the previous month, taking it beyond treasury preferred upper limit of 7.5 per cent.
3. Unstable Market- The drought caused near total crop failure in the short rains dependent areas.this led to overall reduced production, creating a shortfall of maize nationally.
4. Drought and Rainfall- After going through the drought, the rains are causing destruction with scores of people killed by the floods. The cyclic events can be avoided if proper mechanisms are put in place to harvest the runoff.
Mabongajoel answered the question on March 23, 2018 at 19:47
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