President William Ruto calls for land consolidation and organized settlements to protect agricultural land and safeguard Kenya’s food security. President William Ruto proposed a shift toward land consolidation, warning that rapid population growth and the continuous subdivision of family farms pose a serious threat to national food security and rural agricultural productivity. Speaking during a church service at St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Matunda, Kakamega County, on Sunday, October 11, the president urged families to embrace organized settlement models instead of carving up agricultural land into smaller plots whenever children need land to build homes. Protecting Farming Land From Over-Subdivision President Ruto argued that excessive land fragmentation leaves households with plots too small for meaningful farming, severely restricting their ability to grow staple food, cultivate cash crops like coffee, or grow vegetables for household income. “Instead of you, as a parent, cutting down three acres to plant or build a house, we can continue to plant those three acres so that the children can come and live here,” Ruto stated. He urged communities to adopt housing arrangements that accommodate expanding generations while preserving prime agricultural fields intact. “So that we don’t fall because the fields that we use to grow food, we have cut down, and people are living. We w...
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