Urban Farming Promises Nutritional Boost for Africa
As food prices spike, urban areas burgeon and crops fail, researchers have found promise in the most unlikely of places – cities. Experts have tapped urban agriculture as a promising solution to food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa.
A Nairobi City Market trader shows his goods.
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Africa:
Urban Agriculture - Look to Kampala
Stockholm Resilience Centre, 6 August 2012
When it comes to food production, urban agriculture is considered to be something of an ugly duckling. It goes against most accepted city planning approaches, and farmers are… Read more »
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Africa:
Transforming Nutrition - Assessing the Size of the Task
IDS, 15 October 2012
Tuesday is World Food Day and – given that world food prices are once again making the headlines, it seems timely to be assessing the state of undernutrition in the world.… Read more »
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Kenya:
Urban Poor Missing Out On Vital Nutrients
UNIRIN, 12 October 2012
In slums around the world, the sight of food vendors along dusty alleys, serving customers as they wave away flies, is common. Many of these consumers do not consider themselves… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa Aims for Food Self-Sufficiency
ThinkAfricaPress, 19 October 2012
This year's World Food Day celebrations arrived at a time of growing reflection on the performance of Africa's current food security model. Read more »
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Africa:
At World Food Prize Ceremony, UN Secretary-General Calls for New Approaches to Combat Hunger
UN News, 19 October 2012
Innovative approaches and technologies as well as a strong political will from countries are essential to combat hunger, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed… Read more »
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Kenya:
Kenyans Hop to Rabbit Farming
AlertNet, 18 October 2012
Small and furry are not the words that usually come to mind when one thinks of Kenyan livestock. But they describe exactly the animals that Charles Mwangi farms. Read more »
InFocus
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The sprawling slum of Mukuru on the eastern edge of Kenya's capital is a world apart from the glassy skyscrapers towering over traffic-clogged city streets. Its estimated 700,000 ... Read more »
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A new report by World Vision and Save the Children has revealed that despite new strategies to tackle undernutrition, health spending falls far below the 15 percent commitment ... Read more »
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AllAfrica and the Institute of Development Studies have joined forces to produce a research-driven reporting series on the evidence-based innovations that hold potential to end ... Read more »