Africa’s livestock farmers are at the forefront of climate change. Images of parched landscapes littered with the carcasses of starved cattle are becoming all too familiar as droughts increase in frequency and severity. But cattle farming globally is also one of the causes of climate change. The world’s three billion or more ruminants – cattle, […]
Tag: Nutrition
Harare — On Gender Day African Development Bank Rallies Global Support for Women to Build Climate Resilience A panel discussion honouring “Gender Day” at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt featured former Irish president Mary Robinson as its moderator. She demanded the creation of a special climate fund to assist grassroots […]
The Russia-Ukraine war has adversely impacted Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector, resulting in a potential food security crisis, a report by United Nations (UN) organisations has revealed. Titled ‘Impact of the Ukraine crisis in Zimbabwe’, the report was compiled by World Food Programme (WFP), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The three […]
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has assured the general public that registered imported chicken and other meat products cleared from the ports by the FDA are safe for consumption. According to FDA, the products were taken through internationally accredited protocols and procedures to ensure its safety before getting into the Ghanaian market. A statement […]
A court in Senegal has dismissed a lawsuit by a fishermen’s collective against a fishmeal factory they had accused of polluting their village and destroying their livelihoods. Dozens of people filtered into the Thies courthouse Thursday to hear the judge’s decision. The lawsuit, filed by the Taxawu Cayar Collective against the Touba Proteine Marine fishmeal […]
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) are gravely concerned about food insecurity among households across Zimbabwe, amid reports some were already facing acute hunger. The legislators recently besieged Public Service Deputy Minister, Lovemore Matuke demanding food aid distribution data. The MPs wanted to know what the government was doing to alleviate hunger in rural areas considering that […]
The proportion of people facing severe acute food insecurity is at the highest level ever, surpassing levels seen even during the conflicts in 2013 and 2016. Juba – Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise across the flood, drought, and conflict-affected areas of South Sudan, with some communities likely to face starvation if humanitarian assistance […]
Kiambu — The importance of iron and zinc in human nutrition has seen the Government moving towards introducing high yielding bean varieties. Through the Kenya Agri-Nutrition Strategy (2020 to 2024) the government is focusing on securing access to safe, diverse and nutritious food by strengthening the national food chain and community production and also retention […]
Wa — The Coordinator for the Ghana National Eggs Campaign Secretariat (GNECS), Ms Comfort Kyerewaa Acheampong has appealed to government to include eggs in menu of the school feeding programme. She stated that eggs contained six grammes of proteins which was necessary for the growth of children and the development of their intellect for academic […]
Geneva — The World Food Program warned Friday it is only a matter of time before Somalia is hit with a full-blown famine and people start dying in droves. The United Nations food agency said it has been able to keep famine at bay in Somalia by massively increasing food assistance to millions of acutely […]
Geneva — The World Health Organization says hundreds of thousands of people in drought-stricken Somalia may die unless the international community acts urgently to prevent the country from falling into famine. The U.N. health agency says every single person in Somalia is facing hunger on a scale not seen since the famine in 2011, which […]
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) has availed US$36.7 million through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to eight food insecure districts in Zimbabwe beginning this October to March next year. Recently, the government extended its begging bowl to humanitarian organisations as close to four million people from Zimbabwe’s rural population will […]
Nyala — Head of the Otash camp for the displaced in Nyala locality, South Darfur, Sheikh Abdelrazeg Jales revealed that a child has died and three others were taken to the hospital in critical condition after being poisoned eating from the landfill in El Kosha near the camp yesterday, as Sudan’s food crisis worsens. Jales […]
Bulawayo — Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Growing negative narratives about cattle’s contribution to climate change are shrinking the growth of the strategic livestock sector on which the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people in the world depend. In Africa, livestock farming is life, […]
The United Nations humanitarian office on Somalia says the country is still teetering on the edge of famine. Ian Ridley, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in Somalia says there are almost eight million people in need of assistance and over one million people who have been internally […]
Abuja, Nigeria — Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has called on the United Nations to add northwest Nigeria to its humanitarian response plan, due to high numbers of children suffering from malnutrition. The group, known by its French abbreviation MSF, said it has treated nearly 100,000 children in the region for malnutrition this year. […]
Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was in Nigeria in September, and in an interview with Nigeria Health Watch, he shared his insights on Nigeria’s progress in ending malnutrition and offered key recommendations to bridge persistent gaps. Mr. Baker reflected on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and […]
Abuja — As the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria continues at catastrophic levels, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for the humanitarian community to respond to the emergency needs of people in the region, and for northwest Nigeria to be included in the UN’s humanitarian response plan, enabling a broader and more sustained response. Since […]