Drive for Nutritional Farming
Despite increasing research on nutrition sensitive agriculture, one blogger argues that incentives and barriers must be included in the discussion for the method to be successful.
A Nairobi city market trader shows his goods.
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East Africa: Varsity, Firm Partner to Improve Nutrition
East African Business Week, 17 December 2012
The International Potatoes Centre (CIP) has partnered with Sokoine University (SUA) to start implementing the project of sensitizing the public on the benefit of using orange ... read more »
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Nigeria: Ahmadu Bello University Produced High Protein Content Maize - Dr Uthman (interview)
Daily Trust, 14 November 2012
Dr. Inuwa Shehu Uthman is Head of Department of Plant Science in the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. He works with IAR's maize ... read more »
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Nigeria: Plans Underway to Package Sorghum (interview)
Daily Trust, 31 July 2012
In this interview with Dr. Omo Ohiokpehai, Consultant, Processing Products and Nutrition of Sorghum Transformation Value Chain (STVC), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ... read more »
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Rwanda: Residents Urged to Use Their Produce for Balanced Diet
Rwanda Express, 15 June 2012
Although residents are sensitized to embark on agricultural activities, it's equally important to understand how to get balanced diet from their produce and have good health. read more »
InFocus
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More than a third of child deaths in Kenya are due to undernutrition. What's more, Kenya annually loses U.S.$2.8 billion of its GDP to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. AllAfrica ... Read more »
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