Home-grown school feeding
In semi-arid areas, not many crops may do well due to inadequate, erratic and unreliable rainfall. However, crops such as sorghum, millet, cow peas and cassava can do fairly well.
Despite this, production of such crops is limited, mainly because of low market demand (many people tend to rely on maize as their staple food). Promotion of home grown school feeding in such regions can trigger increased production of drought-tolerant crops because schools will provide a ready market for them. This would be a win-win situation where both the school community and the surrounding farmers benefit.
Titus Mutinda,
on the online debate on Home Grown School Feeding
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