Addis Abeba — In the Oromia region where drought and worsening food crisis is ravaging several woredas mainly in Borana and East Bale zones, more reports of drought have been coming out of the arid areas in East Showa zone’s Fentale woreda, West and East Hararghe zones in Eastern Oromia. Roba Jilo, a resident of […]
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Through the use of the School Data Management System (SDMS), schools will be able to easily access the funds allocated to them by the government for the school feeding programme, the ministry of education has said. According to Gaspard Twagirayezu, the Minister of State in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education, the system will solve […]
Agriculture and Irrigation minister Lobin Lowe has assured Malawians not to panic about food shortage in the country as there is enough food reserves to feed the South-eastern impoverished nation. The ministry says the updated Malawi food balance sheet indicate that Malawi has 1,693,997 Metric tonnes (MT) of maize. Speaking during a press briefing in […]
Students from the University of Rwanda (UR)’s School of Public Health have started a three-day campaign in Burera District in a bid to increase community’s awareness about the benefits of healthy nutrition. According to the Public Health Students Association, the integrated campaign will also focus on how to improve domestic sanitation and indoor air quality […]
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Nigeria: The Antidote to Malnutrition
Government must do more to address the issue of poverty Unless Nigeria leaders take immediate steps to address hunger and malnutrition, especially in children and pregnant women, the poor indices on maternal and child mortality in our country will only further worsen. That is the recent message from the Food and Agriculture Organisation, (FAO) Country […]
Education and training are reducing the malnutrition rates in Cabo Delgado Enriched porridge. What a powerful tool it became for the women of Katapua village in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Cristina Celestino Mariano is a young mother with two daughters. She was trained as a “Care Mother” by an FAO Emergency programme on nutrition, funded […]
The World Health Organization, UNICEF and the country’s stakeholders on nutrition discussed advancing the nutrition agenda in Uganda in a one-day symposium, convened by the Ministry of Health, under the theme Strengthening Information System for Nutrition. The symposium aimed to provide a platform for sharing experiences on the successes and challenges of processing and disseminating […]
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Malawi: Fishing in a Landlocked Country
How communities are bringing fish back to one of Malawi’s lakes Willard has been fishing on the shores of Lake Malombe in the Republic of Malawi for more than 40 years. The fisher comes from Chipalamawamba, a village in the country’s south. He says that, over the years, environmental degradation and overfishing of the lake […]
Unpredictable rainfall patterns and heatwaves are beginning to influence priorities for developing countries to direct more attention and resources to reducing food losses. For a long time, food losses have not been receiving sufficient resources , with everybody seemingly obsessed with production. National agricultural budgets have focused mainly on providing inputs. The same has been […]
Doctors Without Borders has launched a new program to treat malnourished children in Katsina state, in the northwest of Nigeria, as conflict and insecurity surge in the region. We are working in collaboration with the Nigerian Ministry of Health to run a 62-bed inpatient therapeutic treatment centre (ITFC) in Katsina City, as well as five […]
Young children who are skin and bones are called “wasted”. The root of the verb “waste” is “to devastate, ruin”, which sadly is all too apt. Severely wasted children are 12 times more like to die of common diseases than children who are not malnourished. And for the survivors, their lives are ruined in the […]
Communities in the Horn of Africa have been urged to address challenges occasioned by climate change, which threatens to exacerbate both the frequency and severity of extreme weather events and undercut significant development gains achieved over the last decade. Climate change pressures are already interacting with conflict dynamics in the Horn of Africa. For example, […]
Gilad Millo is a man who keeps on adding different feathers in his cap. Once a deputy ambassador of Israel, the singer is now juggling music with garlic farming. It is two years since he went into garlic farming, growing the crop on his five-acre Ole Raha Farm in Isinya, Kajiado County. “I farm the […]
Letter to Department of Social Development still unanswered after more than a year A group of organisations led by Save the Children SA has urged the Department of Social Development (DSD) to make assistance available to all immigrant families. At present the department says it can only provide assistance to immigrants with refugee permits, asylum […]
The Office of the Ombudsman has exposed cases where relatively well to do families benefit from free meals meant to tackle malnutrition in poor families. The revelations are contained in the Ombudsman’s report for the financial year 2020/2021, which has exposed flaws in the Shisha Kibondo programme-designed to tackle stunting among children aged 6-23 months. […]
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Namibia: Feeding DRC
A PRAYER group at Swakopmund recently started a soup kitchen to serve the community living in the DRC informal settlement. The kitchen aims to assist those who are jobless and struggling to take care of their families. “We saw there was a need and decided to do what we can with what we have. There […]
Over 5 million people in Zimbabwe are in need of food support despite the country having attained a bumper harvest early this, the World Food Program (WFP) has warned. Zimbabwe received 2.8 million tonnes of maize and 360 000 tonnes of traditional grains from the past season’s harvest resulting from good rains with some kept […]
Food is an important part of our everyday life. However, thanks to modern lives, many of us are left to cut corners when it comes to our food. This careless attitude toward one’s diet is counterproductive and harms the body in the long run. Ruti Gomes, a 32-year old aspiring nutritionist from Mato Grosso, Brazil, […]