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Daily Monitor
Saturday January 02 2021
Summary
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people–especially children–have sufficient and nutritious food all year.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit small scale farmers hard. A report by Heifer International states incomes of more than 87 percent small scale farmers were cut by half since March 2020.
Farmers who once earned an average of Shs100, 000 a month are now surviving on a mere Shs60, 000. Another report by United Nations Uganda, dubbed ‘Analyses of the socioeconomic impact of Covid-19 in Uganda’, observes that there was interruption of farm input supply due to travel restrictions, especially on public transport; disruption of food distribution in urban areas as a result of social distancing rules.
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