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Fighting hidden hunger in Zimbabwe

By Patrice Talla, FAO Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa A food systems approach promotes biofortified vitamin A orange maize. ©FAO 19/05/2021 19 May 2021, Harare – Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children globally and an important contributor to the burden of night blindness in pregnant women and severe illness and death in children under the age of five. Southern Africa is not spared.  In Zimbabwe, nearly one in five children under the age of five are vitamin A deficient. Micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger, is a result of consuming on a day-to-day basis a diet composed mostly of starchy staples. In Zimbabwe, rural diets mainly consist of what farming families can grow, which is predominantly white maize. However, white maize is high in starch and very low in nutritional value.

Onek to UN: Buy food here or shift refugees

Daily Monitor Thursday April 22 2021 Food distribution at Ayilo I Refugee Settlement Camp in Pakele Sub-county, Adjumani District, on June 8, 2020. PHOTO | MARTIN OKUDI Summary The minister was responding to remarks by Ms Rosa Malango, the United Nations Resident coordinator, that WFP was unable to purchase food locally because of “poor quality” of Uganda’s foodstuffs. Advertisement The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Mr Hilary Onek, has said the United Nations must buy food from Ugandan farmers to feed refugees or relocate them to countries supplying  it. Mr Onek, who is no stranger to such demands, on Tuesday argued that claims that local produce lacks quality is an excuse to ring-fence lucrative food supply for foreigners.

Global agricultural research network CGIAR joins forces with World Food Programme to tackle post-pandemic hunger - World

Global agricultural research network CGIAR joins forces with World Food Programme to tackle post-pandemic hunger Format 26 Jan 2021 The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability. January 26, Montpellier, FRANCE The world s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, has united effort with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help tackle hunger and malnutrition in the pandemic recovery. CGIAR and WFP, winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue their long-standing partnership to build resilience and promote sustainable agriculture.

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