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    "id": 1346418,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1346418/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you for the guidance. I beg to reply to the debate on this Report. What is very critical is that legislators need to ensure that the various legal frameworks for food production and nutrition are given priority. We need to also make sure that the international conventions that we have signed, such as the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth, are adhered to. What is very important in a country like ours, whose economic background is agriculture, is family farming. We have very few commercial farms in this country. Family farming is what contributes to our food security and nutrition. Therefore, as parliamentarians, we have to give full support to our small-scale farmers who contribute 80 per cent of the food we have. This being an era of climate change, we should come up with ideas that will help us to do business unusual. Business cannot be done in the same way because we are no longer able to predict the timing and intensity of the rains and grow our crops the way we used to do it. We have to rely heavily on forecasts from our Meteorological Department, who have done very well this year. They warned us early enough that there would be El Nino and, therefore, farmers had to stop their activities a little bit to wait for a lot of water to pass through."
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