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some of the most productive agricultural land in the world. Do the Kenyans sim-
ply not produce enough food on their lands? Is that what accounts for their mal-
nutrition rate of over 30 percent? No, hunger in Kenya depends much more on
what they produce, who owns the land, and how Kenya is tied into the global
economy.
Kenya's most productive lands, those in the western highlands, are owned by
foreign coffee and tea corporations. Driving through the open, luxury-crop-covered
slopes, I saw mostly Kenyan women working the plantations. The lowland plains are
dotted by small farms, many of which have been subdivided to the point of making
the land unviable. Here, an even higher proportion of the people working the lands
are women, but the lands are registered to their husbands or sons because, by law,
they cannot own them.
