More than 6,000 small-holder farmers have benefitted from the LEGS project Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda government says the Local Economic Growth Support (LEGS) project is on track to improve the lives of more than one million people in the rural areas. The 5-year project launched in 2019 worth …
Read More »OIC decides to establish humanitarian trust fund, launch food security program for Afghans
Islamabad, Pakistan | Xinhua | The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has decided to establish a humanitarian trust fund, launch a food security program, and facilitate to unlock financial and banking channels for Afghanistan to help the Afghan people facing looming humanitarian crisis, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday. …
Read More »Kenya eyes increased cassava production as staple crops hit by climate change
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | As the effects of climate change such as scarce rains and drought unfold in Kenya, the east African nation is warming up to alternative crops that were initially neglected to boost food security, with traditional staple crops facing increased threats. Maize and rice are among Kenyan …
Read More »African experts urge investments in nutrition
Adequate financing and political goodwill are required to tackle malnutrition and childhood stunting worsened by the pandemic Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Robust investment in food security and nutrition programs tailor-made for vulnerable demographics including children, women and the elderly is key to hastening Africa’s recovery from COVID-19 related shocks, experts …
Read More »NAADS partners with religious leaders to drive agro-industrialization
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has partnered with religious institutions to help in the implementation of its agro-industrialization drive under the National Development Plan III. In a Memorandum of Understanding between the government and the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, the two parties hope to among other things, change …
Read More »Biotech crops can save Africa’s food shortage
Kampala, Uganda | Isaac Khisa | Biotech crops can effectively contribute to addressing food security and mitigating climate change challenges in Africa, according to Dr. Sylvester Oikeh, TELA Project Manager at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation. Dr. Oikeh, who was speaking during the Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA’s) Fourth African …
Read More »Africa strives to tackle food security challenges brought by COVID-19 pandemic, locust invasion
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | As African countries continue to battle the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, they are making gains on the frontline against massive swarms of the desert locusts that have been threatening the region’s food security. Experts in different countries attribute the gains against the voracious migratory pests to …
Read More »FAO warns large desert locust swarms in East Africa could migrate west
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA | The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Sunday that large numbers of desert locust swarms that have formed in Horn of Africa (HoA), mainly Ethiopia and Kenya, since January 2020 could move west in the coming weeks, threatening fields, …
Read More »Coronavirus causing short- and long-term “uncertainty” in food chains: FAO report
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The global coronavirus outbreak is causing “unprecedented uncertainty” in the world’s food supply chains, according to a report released Thursday by the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The “Agriculture Outlook 2020-2029” report, produced by FAO and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation …
Read More »Priest orders families to plant bananas as precondition for baptism
Kasese, Uganda| THE INDEPENDENT | Parents in Nsenyi Parish, Kasese district who do not have at least 20 banana plants in their homestead will not have their children baptized. This was announced by Rev. Fr. Modest Masereka Kasenyankwe, the Parish Priest who described it as a new move to boost food …
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