Transformation of Kenya’s Agriculture

Abstract

This timely conference provides an important turning point in the history of Agricultural development in Kenya. The critical responsibility of the intelligentsia is to interpret and change the world. The Senate Committee on Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries which I represent welcomes this important scientific conference as a forum for innovative and creative pragmatic thinking and rejection of old dogmas in Agricultural production and marketing. Kenya’s inability to feed itself and to significantly reduce rural poverty is a product of poor policies, lack of political will, institutional failure and failed imposed models of the past.