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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…

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…

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 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…

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,…

When Philimon Nebwanji visited a local government referral hospital in Zimbabwe, the first thing he noticed was that the elevator was not working. With a wheelchair-bound relative expecting to receive medical attention on the facility’s second floor, it meant the stairs were the only alternative. Yet Nebwanji would shortly discover…

Around 200 nations attended the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal at the end of December 2022. The event boasted around 16,000 participants from governments, UN and international organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), non-governmental organizations, academia, and the private sector. The…

Even though GMOs have been scientifically proven to be safe and would be an invaluable component of Uganda’s food security strategy, they continue to be a target of attack by politicians and civil society groups. Uganda, ironically, has the largest number of GM crops under test at…

Kenya is ready to take the lead on carbon removal as the next biggest solution to the climate change crisis. Ali Mohamed, the Special Secretary for Climate Change at the Executive Office of the President, says the country has been pushing the carbon removal agenda since 2018 because…