Kenyan paper urges government to resolve food security paradox.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of editorial entitled ''sort out this mess'' published by Kenyan newspaper The Standard website on 6 October

As the country's attention remains fixed on the drama around the referendum on the proposed constitution, an unfortunate paradox is unfolding on the socio-economic front.

On the one hand, millions of Kenyans living in semi-arid and arid districts of the Coast, Eastern, North Eastern, and parts of the Rift Valley Provinces are in the grip of a famine - and both the World Food Programme and the government have sent out pleas for help in feeding them.

But in the country's productive …