Kotido is facing acute food shortage Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifty-eight people in Kotido district have reportedly died of hunger between May and June this year due to the food crisis in the Karamoja sub-region. A report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification(IPC) indicates that about 518,000 people, …
Read More »UN agencies call for relief as half mln people go hungry in NE Uganda
Food insecurity situation in Karamoja is of urgent concern Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | United Nations agencies in Uganda on Wednesday called for relief as more than half a million people go hungry in semi-arid northeastern Uganda also known as Karamoja. The call comes after a report, Integrated Food Security …
Read More »UNICEF appeals for funding to avert child deaths in East Africa
More than 1.7 million children across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, are in urgent need of treatment for severe acute malnutrition Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday appealed for urgent funding to help avert an “explosion of child deaths” which it said is looming in …
Read More »Scientists use insects to fortify African porridge in fight against malnutrition
Researchers have fortified finger millet with high-quality nutrients from an edible African cricket Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Scientists have used insect nutrients to transform African porridge from a low-nutrient meal into a super-food that meets and exceeds micro-nutrient requirements for people. The researchers from the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology …
Read More »African experts call for climate-proofing farming systems to overcome hunger
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The eradication of hunger and malnutrition in Africa will only be realized once governments leverage nature-based interventions to strengthen the resilience of farming systems in the face of climatic stresses, experts said on Friday. Speaking at a forum in the resort town of Naivasha, located about …
Read More »FAO urges gov’ts to make agrifood systems more resilient
Rome, Italy | Xinhua | Governments need to make their agrifood systems more connected, diversified, and resilient to sudden shocks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stressed in a major report on Tuesday. Unveiled at a virtual conference at the FAO headquarters in Rome, “The State of Food and Agriculture …
Read More »African experts call for investment in dryland agriculture to overcome hunger
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Africa’s drylands could be the solution to the continent’s hunger and malnutrition if governments commit resources to convert them into hubs for irrigated farming, experts said on Friday. Speaking at a virtual forum convened by Futures Agriculture and Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) in Nairobi, …
Read More »UN says livestock-based diets key to tackling global malnutrition crisis
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Sustainable consumption of livestock-based diets including meat, eggs, and milk should be prioritized in order to combat malnutrition affecting pregnant mothers and children in low-income countries, UN Nutrition said in a new report launched in Nairobi on Wednesday. Titled “Livestock-Derived Foods and Sustainable Healthy Diets,” …
Read More »MOH, UNICEF to pilot supply of nutrition commodities directly to public health facilities
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health and United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF have launched the pilot phase of the integration of nutrition commodities in the national supply chain system. It was revealed during the launch on October 16th at the National Medical Stories -NMS warehouse in …
Read More »More children likely to suffer from malnutrition
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More children under the age of five are likely to suffer from wasting and become dangerously undernourished. Wasting is a life-threatening form of malnutrition which makes children too thin and weak and puts them at greater risk of dying poor due to growth, development, …
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