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REGIONAL REVIEW: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Food supply
challenges
T

his year has seen the countries of
eastern Africa, particularly Kenya, struggling with some new
and worrying food supply problems.
As harvest approaches, they're hoping
for a better supply situation in the new
marketing year.
Faced with short supplies of corn
(maize), Kenya's government declared
a food emergency on Jan. 9. A U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) attaché report said that about 10 million
Kenyans, (approximately 25% of the
population) were or soon would be at
severe risk of food shortages. A later attaché report, published in May, showed
little improvement. "The food security
situation in Kenya continues difficult
and deteriorating, partly because the
Kenyan port-to-fork food delivery infrastructure remains inadequate to service the nearly unprecedented volumes
of food grains needed in the Kenyan
interior," the report said.
It painted a disturbing picture of the
infrastructure limitations Kenya faces.
"Reportedly, ships are waiting as long
as four weeks to discharge bulk commodities at the only Kenyan port, the
Port of Mombasa," it said. "Almost all
of the discharged food grains must be
bagged for transport and distribution to
millers. This labor-intensive and very
slow bagging process frustrates the
ship offload capacity."
Problems persist once the grain is
off ships. "Once loaded, the trucks ply
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Delivery infrastructure problems, drought and
other factors hamper East African nations
a single, two-lane, east-west highway
through the major population sites
within the country," it said. "Kenya's
narrow-gauge railway does not operate efficiently enough to provide a viable alternative to truck-transport, even
though east-west truck freight rates are
reported to be very expensive."

The attaché also reported depleted
government grain stocks and said that
rains needed to plant and grow the new
crop had not yet developed. "As a result, we expect that Kenya will need to
import at least an additional 600,000
tonnes of commercial white corn for
human consumption through the com-

There have been reports of ships having to wait up to four weeks to discharge their bulk commodities
at the Port of Mombasa, the only port in Kenya. Photo courtesy of GBHL.
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