The Ministers in charge of Agriculture and Food Security of ECOWAS Member States have resolved to work towards adequate food reserves at the local, national and regional levels to ensure food security in the subregion.
They would, therefore, mobilise and allocate significant resources to strengthen and expand community and private storages in the region to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Two: Eliminate Hunger, Achieve Food Security, Improve Nutrition, and Promote Sustainable Agriculture.
They noted that strategic food reserves are powerful instruments of resilience for grassroots communities, states and ECOWAS and contribute to the dignity and food sovereignty of the people of the Sahel and West Africa.
Islamabad
April 9, 2021
Islamabad : Vaccination of the people against coronavirus will be a huge challenge for the government and the rural support programmes can help ensure an access of the residents of far-flung areas to the vaccine, said Islamabad deputy commissioner Hamza Shafqaat on Thursday.
He was speaking during the National Convention of LSOs 2021, which was held by the Rural Support Programme Network (RSPN) online. This year, the themes of the annual event were the Role of Community-Driven Development in Socio-Economic Empowerment of Rural Communities in Pakistan; and Community Institutions and their Response to COVID-19 in Partnership with Government and Donors; and as well as Empowering Communities to Improve Nutrition and Economic Opportunities.
Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria and Food For Peace are platforms used by UNICEF, USAID and other partners in ending malnutrition in Zamfara state. However, the fear of insecurity and its spread have become an albatross as they force mothers to remain at home for fear of uncertainties. Kuni Tyessi writes
The rising case of insecurity has continued unabated in several parts of the country with the north as worst hit.
The long term implications which cannot be seen from a shortsighted lens has continued to brew with devastating consequences on children, and their mother’s inability to access the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) intervention, thereby watering down its efforts in Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme.
Owners to ensure labourers nutrition facilities â Monnujan
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KHULNA, Jan 6, 2021 (BSS) â State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian has said mills and factory owners should come forward to ensure labourers nutrition facilities.
âProduction will be enhanced in the factories while on duty labourers have nutritious food facilities,â She made the remarks yesterday while addressing a regional motivational meeting to ensure labourers nutrition facilities held at a city hotel as chief guest.
Ministry of Labour and Global Alliance for Improve Nutrition (GAIN) jointly organised the meeting.
The state Minister said industry is the key of success of development and itâs depend on labourers hand.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Entrepreneurs in rural Haiti are taking action to end malnutrition in their communities, with the support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Fondasyon Kole Zepòl (Fonkoze) through the Aksyon Kominotè nan Sante pou Ogmante Nitrisyon (AKSYON or Community Health Action to Improve Nutrition) programme. This year alone, the programme has screened nearly 75,000 children for malnutrition in all of Haiti’s ten Departments, including 138 communes, 591 communal sections and 5,285 localities.
US Ambassador accredited to Haiti, Michele Sison declared: “The AKSYON programme not only helps fight and prevent malnutrition throughout Haiti, it also creates opportunities for the community health entrepreneurs to grow their own businesses while making a difference in their neighbourhoods.”