Catholic Church in Kenya fights hunger by farming its vast land reserves
In an effort to fight hunger, the Roman Catholic Church in Kenya is making 3,000 acres of church-owned land available for commercial farming.
“We want to produce food, create employment, and improve quality of life for the people,” said Celestino Bundi, Kenya’s national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
This is the first time the church has entered into large-scale farming. It owns massive tracts of land across the country, most of which are idle and in the hands of dioceses, parishes, missionaries, and congregations.
