FOOD SECURITY students from Scotland's rural college have travelled to Kenya to learn about food production and distribution, as well as retailing, poverty and malnutrition, in developing countries.

The 21 students, who are studying for a Masters degree in Food Security at SRUC Edinburgh, were hosted by the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi.

Professor Daniel Sila, head of the Department of Food Science at JKUAT, together with colleagues from the Department of Agricultural Economics, gave presentations on the work being done on food security and the introduction of new food products – including so-called orphan crops such as millet, yam, roots and tubers, which are regionally important but not traded around the world.

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