Families in Western and Nyanza regions are technically living hand to mouth, spending close to 70 per cent of income on food, despite being one of the country's food baskets.
The Kenya Economic Report 2023 dubbed 'Cost of Living and the Role of Markets' by the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kippra) shows all counties in those regions spent an average of 67 percent on food last year.
"Surprisingly, counties in Western and Nyanza regions that are expected to have food spend about two-thirds of their income on food,'' the report reads.
Although the report did not give clear reasons why the regions were spending most resources on food, economic data by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) links this to high family sizes.
On average, a family in the region has at least five members compared to the national average of three.
