Focus on the message not the messenger. The solution to kenyas food production is not GMOs. Irrigation, post harvest storage, pest control, marketing, would solve most of our food problems.
The GMO maize grown the US is engineered to be herbicide resistant ie Round Up ready maize. This means to control weeds in maize fields you spray the field with roundup which kills all other plants except the maize. Such a system doesnt make sense in kenya because weed control has never been the problem for the small scale maize producers because they use hand weeding unlike the large US maize producers with 10,000 acres maize whose only option is applying herbicides for weed control. Also in kenya most of the maize is intercropped with beans, potatoes, sukuma, banana etc which means applying herbicides would kill all the other crops. So growing this gmo maize is basically growing expensive seed that destroys your other crops and further reduces your food security, unless you refuse to spray the maize with herbicides which negates the objective of buying the GMO maize. Also note that 99% of GMO maize grown is yellow maize meant for livestock feed. So if govt is importing it for food, how many kenyans will eat yellow maize?
Anyway the whole objective is to allow Round-up-ready GMO maize so that the chemical companies can sell you GMO seeds and roundup herbicide to use on the maize. Its nothing about food security and health, its all about profits. NB that Round up has been linked to cancer and the manufacturer forced to pay billions in compensation to victims.
