Development Philosophy

The Kenya Development Philosophy

Communities in developing countries are the underprivileged. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 80% of the populations depend on rain-fed agriculture. In Kenya 70% of the people live in rural areas where they work on farms to generate food and income.

Their lives are characterized by:

Diminishing land sizes

Diminishing financial capacity to purchase chemical farm inputs

Diminishing ability to establish farm mechanization.

Declining soil fertility and energy sources

Reducing ability to determine prices for their agricultural produce.

Reduced ability to irrigate farms.

Reduced ability to influence policies that control their rural development.

On the other hand;

Increasing family and population sizes.

Increasing prices for rural development goods and services.

The end result of the scenario analyzed above is a people who are disempowered. SACDEP believe that people are not necessarily poor, their status are as a result of poor development strategies.

These strategies are perpetuated by a biased elitist minority mostly guided by academic and foreign thinking.

Therefore, SACDEP SAYS “give people an opportunity to develop themselves and you will be surprised at what they can do for themselves.”

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