Kitui

As you drive through Kitui and Mwingi provinces in southern Kenya, you notice the fields of golden corn around you on all sides.

David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012

Joyce and Esther pictured right, for example, are members of chwindiaa, the widows' association in Kitui.

David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012

Most of the farmers in Kitui are women, while the men look for manual work in town.

Small farmers in vanguard of Africa's battle for agricultural development | Mark Tran 2011

Kitui, an hour and a half's drive from Nairobi taking in the partially completed superhighway being built by the Chinese, is particularly prone to drought, with neighbouring Mwingi even more so.

Small farmers in vanguard of Africa's battle for agricultural development | Mark Tran 2011

As you drive through Kitui and Mwingi provinces in southern Kenya, you notice the fields of golden corn around you on all sides.

David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012

At conferences in Paris, Rome and Addis Ababa, phrases such as food security and resilience trip off the tongue; on the ground, Mwanza and her fellow farmers in Kitui are grafting to turn those notions into reality.

Small farmers in vanguard of Africa's battle for agricultural development | Mark Tran 2011

Joyce and Esther pictured right, for example, are members of chwindiaa, the widows' association in Kitui.

David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation David Weiss 2012

Some additional information which benefited the book was obtained in Kitui during the project on Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INDAKS) implemented by Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge

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Fruits in May-June at the coast, in July in Kitui.

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Fruits sold in Siaya, Lodwar, West Pokot, Baringo, Kitui and coastal towns.

Chapter 7 1999