“Farming Is Not a Crime”: Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers Are Challenging a Law Preventing Them From Sharing Indigenous Seeds
By Jackson Okata
For 30 years, Peninah Ngahu, 58, has practised subsistence farming on her one-acre farm in Elementaita village, 175 km west of Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Ngahu, who practises organic farming, says that “accessing indigenous seeds was easy because farmers would share, sell, buy and exchange them freely.”
“A farmer who had a surplus of indigenous seeds would freely share out to those who lacked, and this ensured that every farmer had something to plant, and this guaranteed our food security,’’ Ngahu tells Minority Africa.
Photo courtesy of ILRI.
Source: Minority Africa (link opens in a new window)
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