The County Government of Vihiga in Kenya announced a four-year Nutritional Action Plan with a budget of about 1.6 billion Kenyan Shillings.

During the release of the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) Kenya Study report, the Kenyan government argued that it should be prioritized to scale and diverse financing to address malnutrition.

A community kitchen, which aims at reducing hunger and malnutrition among the poor and vulnerable youths, has opened in Khayelisha, South Africa.

A professor of nutrition at California Polytechnic State University points out the need for improved nutrition education in Malawi and she works with professors at the University of Malawi College of Medicine.

Aflatoxins, a toxic substance associated with an increased risk of liver and kidney, has been detected above standard levels in Kenya, and therefore, several famous brands of maize flour have been collected from supermarkets.

In South Sudan, hundreds of thousands of children and their families are living in temporary housing because their houses crashed down due to heavy rain. It is estimated that 60 per cent of affected people have been severely malnourished since before the heavy rains.

With the introduction of an NGO “Energy 4 Impact” in Rwanda, an initiative was launched in 2008, to develop a small-scale solar irrigation market as a way of increasing farmers’ productivity and food security in Rwanda.

Three UC Berkeley researchers and their coauthors assert that without significant government investment in family planning, girls’ education, agriculture, and security, West Sahel’s political and economic system could collapse.

A charitable institution “On Call Africa”, which is based in Glasgow, dispatches doctors in Zambia to provide travelling clinics, health education, and training to health volunteers, and support the local health system.

At a three-day conference in Addis Ababa, scientists and civil society representatives argued that conventional agriculture causes environmental destruction, and therefore it is not sustainable. The fastest and cheapest way to reverse climate change is through the soil, and agroecology that respect the relationships among plants, animals, people and the environment

Hungarian model farms are being set up in Africa in order to test and show breeding techniques under different climatic conditions.

Of the 61 countries participating in Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), 11 are supposed to meet the World Health Assembly’s stunt reduction goals by 2025. On the other hand, no country would achieve its goal of reducing anemia among women of reproductive age by 50 per cent and low birth weight babies by 30 per cent by 2025.

Funded $13 Million by True Ventures, “Wefarm”, the digital network for global small-scale agriculture, aims to scale up its network of 1.9 million farmers, and its Marketplace to provide information, products, and service to farmers in Africa, even without an internet connection.

In South Africa, drought and chronic malnutrition have severe effects on economic growth. When the stunting rate reaches 30%, per capita GDP is reduced by 7% to 10% due to lower academic achievement and higher unemployment.

A large number of populations in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique are in food crisis because of drought, cyclones and flooding caused by it, conflict and economic downturn. Following this, the number of girls traded off to purchase foods is also increasing

Zimbabwe, November 3, 2019 The “Check It” project intends to improve dietary diversity in high-density areas in Eastern and Southern Africa. (Source: The Standard) https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/11/03/bulawayo-residents-get-nutrition-boost/

Africa, November 2, 2019 The African Union (AU) encouraged each country to use new agricultural technologies to combat the prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa. (Source: Ghana Business News)

Africa, November 1, 2019 The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, which aims at doubling productivity and incomes for 30 million farm families by 2020, however, there is little evidence it has contributed to reducing poverty and hunger in rural areas. (Source: […]