The International Sweet Potato Centre has launched a $21.25 million research project in Uganda that will develop nutritionally enhanced sweet potatoes, in a project to reduce health problems related to vitamin A deficiency and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
THE Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years.
AT 80 years, Mzee Kiwanuka is literally living like a baby. With all his teeth gone, he no longer enjoys beef, his favourite delicacy. His appetite and taste for food has also drastically taken a slump. He is battling old age in isolation.
At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.
One in four South African children under five-years-old suffers from moderate or severe malnutrition, and ongoing climate change as a result of global warming is most certainly going to increase this number as food insecurity becomes more pervasive.
At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year.
Aja Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, vice president and minister of Women's Affairs, last Friday, in separate but similar engagements, received in audience the senior nutrition specialist of the World Bank for Africa region, Menno Mulder Sibanda; and Yahya Ceesay, author of a book entilted: 'Women are nation builders'.
The importance of proper nutrition for reproductive mothers and their babies has been re-emphasised as it brings about healthy and long life.
Many educated Ghanaians are patronizing usually unhealthy and fatty junk foods that have been packaged and made more attractive to their own detriment.
A cross section of Dietitians in Enugu, have observed with dismay the resurgence of severe malnutrition among children under the age of five in the country..
Every town has one popular delicacy that helps to define it. For Jos, capital of Plateau state, Gwote may be the meal of choice.
Dr. Babagana Ahmadu, the FAO representative in The Gambia, has said that improving the safety of the food produced and consumed in The Gambia will not only reduce the negative health effects of unsafe food, but will also help to increase the supply of available food, as the food that is produced will remain consumable longer and will increase opportunities for export of food and agricultural ...
IN the 50 years since the era of independence began, Africa has come a long way. Our freedom is enshrined in law. Embassies of African nations operate around the world but we are not fully free and cannot be until we end the chronic hunger that afflicts nearly 220 million Africans every day.
