Was the food crisis in Kenya avoidable?

As he returned with a herd of goats and sheep, his legs were clearly in pain after the two-hour walk from the pasture near a river. "I have lost relatives in this drought - elderly relatives have died. We haven't had any proper rain here for three years," he told me, adding that this was the worst drought to hit the area for five years.

"There's hardly any grass anywhere so the livestock have been swept away - half my animals have died - 40 of them - it is the same story in every homestead."