A paper showing the results of a study on the long-term effects of sugarcane farming on indigenous food crops and vegetables in Mumias and Nzoia sugarbelts of western Kenya.
According to the researchers, land under indigenous food crops and vegetable has been declining since the introduction of sugarcane. Indigenous food crops and vegetable cultivation by farmers in the sugarbelts has been declining. Furthermore some farmers in the area studied have abandoned the growing of these crops altogether. From their results, it is implied that that sugarcane farming is a major contributor to agrobiodiversity erosion, alongside other factors such as, change of consumer,preference, land fragmentation, climate variability among others.
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