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Profile: Dr Sheila Ochugboju reflects on her past and sees a bright future for Alliance for Science and a green, food-secure Africa
Like all great stories, it starts with lizards. Lizards and butterflies, scorpions and snakes and rivers. It starts with wide-open African skies waiting to be painted by restless imaginations. “I was left to roam and explore nature in my tiny village of Nigeria. I was told to be careful…
Bay of Bengal: Climate crisis puts people in ecologically fragile Sundarbans on the edge of poverty
The wind was blowing hard on a November 2007 afternoon. When Mohammad Alamin Khan’s father told him to fetch some items from the market, he left on his bicycle. Famous for its unique mangrove vegetation, the Sundarbans, the largest continuous mangrove vegetation in the world, covers over 10,000 kilometers…
Panelists at Action Zone say farmers need to be at the center of climate change conversation
Several side events to the inaugural Africa Climate Summit that started in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 4, had one thing in common: a lot of food was served. At the Climate Action Zone, a side event by the Alliance for Science, one session was dedicated to discussing the…
Kenya places faith in empowered community workers to realize Universal Health Coverage dream
In her Kandiege village in Kenya’s Homa Bay County, Loyce Anyango is held in high regard. She is a community health promoter (CHP) and sensitizes the villagers on maintaining general hygiene as the world recovers from Covid-19. Kenya has 47 devolved, semi-autonomous county governments headed by governors…
Uganda seeks to bring more smallholder farmers into money economy with new strategy
To attract more smallholder farmers to its money economy, Uganda has started implementing its much-touted Parish Development Model. The model, which President Yoweri Museveni launched in February 2022, is a government-led initiative aimed at extricating 17.5 million Ugandans from poverty and integrating the country’s subsistence households into the…
Malnutrition persists in Zimbabwe despite biofortification of crops and improved grain harvest
Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector has in recent years intensified its biofortification efforts as the country seeks to address long-running nutrition concerns. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says biofortification is “the development of crops with enhanced levels of nutrients available for consumption.” Biofortification adds nutritional value such as Vitamin A…
Fact check: Kenyan politician makes false claims about genetically modified foods — again
Early this month, Kenya’s former Prime Minister criticized the move by the government to import genetically modified maize. Addressing a gathering of his supporters in the Coastal county of Kilifi, Raila Odinga said that consuming imported GM maize would seriously affect Kenyans. His specific words were that men would…
Lesotho targets adolescent girls and mothers in 18 million-dollar program to end malnutrition
Lesotho has committed 18.8 million dollars towards ending malnutrition, with adolescent girls being the main focus of the program. The southern African kingdom of 2.3 million people received a 22 million loan from the World Bank and a 4.4 million-dollar co-financing grant from the Power of Nutrition for…
Climate change: Sub-Saharan Africa countries suffer as agricultural productivity and standards of living fall
For many Kenyans, the Kinangop town evokes mental pictures of chilly weather, dense fogs, and abundant food all year round. Kinangop is known to be comparatively colder than most Kenyan towns, as it is in the foothills of the chilly Aberdare Ranges. Its vegetables feed the main city, Nairobi,…