Issue No. 58
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January - March 2005

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The Bitter Pill

Picture: Unending trials and travails in Kenya’s uncompetitive sugar industry, have left a bitter taste in the mouths of the more than 100,000 small-holder growers.

Unending trials and travails in Kenya’s uncompetitive sugar industry, have left a bitter taste in the mouths of the more than 100,000
small-holder growers.
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KENYA is gradually shifting to a new paradigm. What was once considered of little significant value to scientific knowledge and irrelevant to development is now rapidly being harmonized to enhance the country’s economic and health concerns. It is none other than traditional medicinal therapies.
But Kenya is not responding in isolation. More than three quarters of the world’s population today depend on traditional healthcare based on local plants and practices for their primary medical needs, while at least 40 percent of the world’s ‘modern medicines’ are based on plants and traditional medicines.

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