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In its continued quest to make Nigerians healthier and richer, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc yesterday launched Honeywell wheatmeal into the nation's market. The new product is expected to meet all nutritional and health needs of all Nigerians of all ages.
UNITED States (US) Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders has challenged Federal Government to adopt appropriate mechanisms to achieve long-term food security saying "Nigeria is the largest importer of rice globally."
Hundreds of Tonota College of Education (TCE) students launched a hunger strike on Tuesday decrying the quality of bread supplied by a local bakery.
NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again emphasized that Micronutrients such as vitamin A Iodine, Zinc to mention a few are the ultimate solution to malnourishment which indeed affects most Nigerian children.
Christian church leaders have been blamed for being too docile and playing a spectator role in their communities.
South Africa is satisfied by the outcomes of this week's World Food Summit, including the adoption of a declaration that serves as a basis for addressing the challenge of hunger faced by a billion people worldwide.
ABOUT 150 Kenyan refugees arrived at the Malaba border on Thursday from Kiryandongo in Masindi. This brings to 210, the number of refugees who have voluntarily returned home in two months.
President Mugabe has thanked the Food and Agriculture Organisation for assisting Zimbabwe boost household food security through a US$70 million input facility targeting smallholder farmers.
A UN summit on food security vowed in a final declaration Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world.
Less than 24 hours, heads of state and government will reach a consensus on how to stamp out the ugly world monster-hunger-when they converge for the World Summit on Food Security under the directive of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations .
A total of 379 students have graduated with diplomas and certificates in catering at Jimmy Sekasi Institute of Catering in Budo, Wakiso district. The 7th graduation on Friday had 312 females and the rest males.
Over 1.57 million people in 63 districts in 15 regions need free and subsidized food from the government beginning this November, revealed by the September 2009 Rapid Vulnerability Assessment.
Some of the most widespread forms of malnutrition can best be reduced by delivering micronutrients and fortifying food in new, cost-effective ways, in combination with community outreach work, experts have said.
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'.
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