WHO in the front line to weed out tobacco farming from Kenya

Tobacco crop

A farmer inspects a mature tobacco crop in Malakisi, Bungoma County, Kenya. PHOTO | FILE 

The World Health Organisation on Wednesday launched a programme that will see hundreds of farmers in Migori County, western Kenya, shift from health-hazardous tobacco-farming, in efforts to reduce tobacco-related deaths and improve eco-friendly farming in the country.

The programme, dubbed ‘Tobacco-Free Farms Project’, will be executed in partnership with World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and the Kenya government.