The Government of Kenya has over the years put in place several policy measures to address poverty reduction and food security in the country. These include:

• Sessional paper no.10 of 1965 on African socialism and its application to planning in Kenya –emphasizing eradication of poverty, disease and ignorance.
• National food policy (sessional paper no. 4 of 1981) was Kenya’s first food policy and aimed to maintain broad self-sufficiency in major foodstuffs and to ensure equitable distribution of food of nutritional value to all citizens.
• National food policy (sessional paper No.2 of 1994) was Kenya’s second food policy developed following the 1991-94 drought and promoted a market –driven approach to food security.
• Kenya Rural Development Strategy  (KRDS) 2002-2017 was a long-term framework outline, with a broad range of strategies for the improvement of rural Kenya over the next 15 years. It emphasized food security as the initial step towards poverty alleviation/reduction and rural development.
• Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) for wealth and employment creation, 2003 -2007 which focused on achieving good governance, transparency and accountability and providing a lasting solution to hunger, poverty and unemployment.
• Strategy for Revitilizing Agriculture (SRA 2004-2014). Cascaded from ERS, its primary objective was to provide a framework to increase agricultural productivity, to promote investment and encourage private sector involvement in agriculture.
• Kenya vision 2030 was launched in 2007 to further consolidate the economic recovery momentum gained from implementation of the ERS. The vision indentifies agriculture as the key mover of raising Kenya’s GDP to 100%. The vision recommends devolved funds targeting communities with high incidence of poverty, unemployed youth, women and all vunerable groups and investments in arid and semi-arid districts.
• The Agriculture Sector Development Strategy (ASDS), 2009 has been developed by the agricultural sector to align sector initiatives to vision 2030.
• The National Food Security and Nutrition Policy (NFSNP), 2009 addresses the need for enhanced food and nutrition security, information mamagement systems and coordination of the roles of various ministries and agencies to achieve food security.
• Other policy instruments that support national food security intiatives include; The National Agricultural Sector Extention Policy (NASEP), Land policy, Environment, Water and Irrigation, livestock, Oceans and Fisheries Policy, and ASAL Policy among others.