According to the World Bank, some 200 million more people are suffering from extreme poverty, hunger or thirst as a result of the crisis.

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Kenya is a country suffering from what she calls chronic land hunger, a problem which first surfaced during colonial rule but which has never been properly addressed since independence in 1963.

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