Getting food to the people and keeping food production going in times of curfews, movement restrictions and lock-downs are emerging to be the biggest challenges governments across the globe have to contend with when considering or implementing any forms of mass containment as responses necessitated by the COVID 19 pandemic.

There is a famous Kalenjin proverb that states ‘We share the same sun but we do not share the same roofs.’ The Kenya government has struggled over the past few weeks to convince people to stay at home. In addition, while private sector struggled to allow for remote working public sector responded fairly quickly then struggled in maintaining isolationist approaches to remote working and are now slowly calling people back to work: one by one, and meeting by meeting.