Food security: Lessons from China, Yuan Longping
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Wed May 26 2021
Since Saturday, May 22, 2021, China, the world’s most populous country, has been celebrating the life and times of one of its greatest achievers. Prof Yuan Longping, an agronomist, who died at the age of 90; but it is not just his longevity that his countrymen and women are dancing for.
China is paying tribute to the man who broke its hunger streak and helped the nation achieve near food security at a time when hunger was tormenting a significant fraction of the human race.
Today, China is the world’s largest producer of rice, and, surprisingly, it uses only nine per cent of its arable land to produce this.
Govt to Fire Thousands of Employees
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Citizen Digital
The chairman of Vice Chancellors of Public Universities, Prof Geoffrey Muluvi, said during the meeting that was attended with the Treasury and parliamentary committee on education that universities were struggling to be operational and while managing debts owed to staff and other government entities. Universities have accrued unremitting statutory payments to KRA, pension scheme dues, insurance premiums, Sacco contributions, NHIF and NSSF. The total amount owned by September 2020 is about Sh37.3 billion, most of which is to KRA, said Prof Muluvi.
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BBC News
By Oliver Wright
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It s exactly 12 months since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the UK. A year on, the BBC has spoken to the people who found themselves at the centre of the drama.
It was a Wednesday afternoon when a 23-year-old Chinese national called the NHS 111 phone line from his hotel room in York city centre. The University of York student, known in medical journals only as B , was suffering with a fever, a dry cough and muscle pain. His 50-year-old mother, A - who had flown to the UK from Wuhan, in Hubei province, a week earlier - was also feeling unwell with a fever, cough and sore throat.