KAGERA Regional Commissioner (RC) Major Gen Charles Mbuge has appealed to the residents to regularly drink milk as well as breastfeeding mothers to breastfeed their babies constantly to improve their health. “People should change their attitude and drink more milk and also put more focus on breestfeed the babies. Those aged five years and below […]
Tag: Nutrition
The authorities must do more for the country’s hungry and ill-fed children Going by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) projection, at least 1.15 million Nigerian children between one and five years may suffer from acute malnutrition this year in the Northeast alone, with more than half of them expected to be severely malnourished. Over […]
A TASK force set up by the agriculture ministry recommends a number of measures to save the dairy industry from collapse, including introducing quantitative controls on imported dairy products, said minister of agriculture, water and land reform Calle Schlettwein in the National Assembly recently. The Namibian highlighted the plight of dairy producers and the threat […]
The country is expecting to harvest at least 2,7 million tonnes of maize this year, the highest yield in 20 years, a microcosm of how the country’s farming sector is defying sanctions. Western countries imposed illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe after rolling out the land reform programme in 2000, crippling many sectors of the economy. The […]
The State of Eritrea has made huge strides in improving the health and wellbeing of women and children since independence. This is primarily due to the strong political commitment to social development, particularly the drive to improve the lives of the mothers and children. In line with the government’s SDGs commitment, Eritrea in 2017 conducted […]
As the country comes to terms with the devastation of veld fires that continue to decimate tens of thousands of acres of grazing land over the past few months, farmers across the country have now turned to prayer. Veld fires have become extremely prevalent across the country this year mainly due to the good rainfall […]
An estimated three million people are projected to be in need of humanitarian assistance in Zimbabwe between January and March 2022. This is the assessment carried out by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its latest GIEWS – Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) report. Zimbabwe joins 33 […]
AT LEAST 84% of Zimbabweans believe public resources are not equitably shared amid concerns the debt details were also shrouded in secrecy, a recent Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt Development (ZIMCODD) report has established. According to the document titled; “Public Resources Management Situational Report” the distribution of public resources at the community level remained exclusive and […]
An inaugural garden week in the university town of Stellenbosch, inspired by a Catalonian flower festival, will showcase nature through talks, tours, art, wine and food. There’s a famously funny – and tragic at the same time – story about a survey some years ago by Innovation Center for US Dairy which reported that 48% […]
DESPITE producing cereals, legumes and fruit, some of which are exported, Namibia still imports about 60% of the food it needs. This is one of the observations of the National Food Systems Dialogue which was presented at the third Sustainable Development Dialogue Series (SDDS) by World Food Programme head of programmes Elvis Odeke on Friday. […]
Under the theme ‘Building Resilience through Hope’, and against the background of the COVID pandemic and global insecurity, the General Assembly’s opening will underscore the need for greater urgency and ambition to end the pandemic and ensure an equitable and green recovery and accelerated implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. As we work to end […]
Nancy Onyango interviewed Ingrid Korving, Agriculture Counsellor for Kenya and Tanzania, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, before the Mashariki Summit 2021, which will focus on pathways to addressing food & nutrition security in Kenya and Tanzania in COVID times… The Netherlands is the second largest food exporter in the world. It is well […]
UNICEF Zimbabwe is appealing for US$ 65.8 million to meet Zimbabwe’s humanitarian needs for 2021 as a result of the multiple hazards of residual impacts of Cyclone Idai, and floods. The funds are also meant to mitigate the effects of Covid-19, diarrhoeal disease outbreaks, and the economic crisis. As of the end of last month, […]
The plan was to set up projects, some running into billions of shillings, that would make the country food secure, saving millions of Kenyans from the devastating effects of drought and famine. But almost nine years since President Uhuru Kenyatta’s administration promised the construction of dams, irrigation of millions of acres of land for farming […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has admitted the hunger situation the eastern region is facing and has assured people in the region that his government will not relent in assisting all hunger-stricken households in the region and Malawi at large. Chakwera said on Saturday in Balaka that the district Phalombe, Chikwawa and Nsanje are some of the […]
Moved by the plight of impoverished people around her at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown, one woman decided to do something – and has made a material difference in their lives. Sanny Mashigo, 48, cooks and sells food to industrial workers around Strydom Park in Randburg, in the northwest of Johannesburg. But when Covid-19 […]
Sifelani Tsiko — Agric, Environment & Innovations Editor Normal to above normal rainfall is most likely during the next summer rains over most of SADC region, according to a seasonal forecast from the 25th Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF 25) released yesterday. More detailed information on likely Zimbabwean rainfall patterns and discussion on […]
Food security levels are no longer improving globally, and the trend for Africa is especially worrying. The latest United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report shows a forthcoming global shift of food insecurity towards Africa. It also points to multiple trends that threaten to […]