Kenya's GMO maize ban threatens food security amid drought crisis

In the shadow of a punishing drought, Kenya finds itself caught between principle and necessity — its ban on genetically modified maize, a policy rooted in caution, now stands between millions of citizens and the grain they need to survive. South Africa sits with a record surplus just across the continent, ready and willing to supply, yet Kenya's own regulations render that abundance unreachable. This is not a story of global scarcity, but of a nation whose policy architecture has not yet made room for the hard compromises that food security sometimes demands.