To date much of the large-scale farms or plantations are owned or managed by either expatriates, Kenyans of foreign descent or transnational companies. Few indigenous Kenyans use the landholdings at their disposal for commercial agriculture. A middle category of medium-scale farmers appears nearly absent. At the same time much rural land owned by the urban elite and middle class is underutilized. There is a group of people commonly referred to as telephone farmers: urbanites with land and ambitions to engage in agricultural production. This group