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    "id": 1161865,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "talking about culture and the importance of eating the right food for the purposes of our mental and general body wellness, then, the conversation of climate change must come in. Do we realized what climate change is doing to the produce that we produce and the changes that have to be done to our production; the skills that we then need to impact on our people, so that we can mitigate these effects of climate change? Climate change is now a big crisis. The fact remains that our weather cycles have changed. Again, people need to understand and be schooled on what then do you grow and eat that can be your sustenance. Even though we shall be looking up to large-scale production, of let us say food, for the purposes of growing our economy, but for sustenance do we have enough conversation or capacity building of our people, so that they can know what to grow within the changing climatic conditions that are there? I do agree that our children need to be included in this conversation. I know that there are certain schools that try very much to speak to it. Largely, our curriculum needs to adopt it as a constant, so that as our children grow, they are fully equipped towards; how to mitigate climate change, adopt and embrace the new climate changes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a lot to do when it comes to capacity building towards climate change. Again, somebody brought up a conversation about potato farming, today, at the people’s dialogue. That was because of the big debate that happened when one of the international food chain companies -KFC - announced that there are no enough potatoes in the country. Kenyans were up in arms, not believing it. They could not quite understand what the real issue is. When the conversation was however finally put on the table, it was made clear to us that there is a level of capacity building that we have to bring our famers to, so that they can grow in such a scale that then this international food chain companies can then buy directly from them. You then realize that there is a big gap and a lot more that we need to do to empower ourselves as citizens and our famers, so that they can reach to that level where they can compete on a global stage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is also a question of how we are adapting to climate change. What are the things within our environment here in Kenya that we should be telling our famers and pushing them to do, when it comes to climate change? We have heard conversations in the Committee. One of the Petitions that came earlier on in this term was a very interesting one. It came from Magadi, Kajiado County. There is a lot of silt that is going into Magadi. The silt comes from erosion that is coming from the farms around. What has happened – of course because of climate change and changing rain patterns – you find that grazing is done until the ground is absolutely bare. Then, there is no afforestation being done or there is a way that you can graze, in an orderly designed manner, to allow the earth regenerate and things like that. They brought that Petition. The Petition was actually pushing towards the fact that there is infrastructure that was being built nearby. It was the earth infrastructure that was then being carried away when it rains, into silt into the lake, and, therefore, affecting the great resource that Lake Magadi is. After a long conversation with the County Executive Committee Member (CECM) of Agriculture in Kajiado County, there was then the conversation of; what are"
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