Food & Health

On May 21 2014 the Daily Monitor (a local Ugandan daily) carried a photograph of a woman in Karamoja climbing a tree to get wild fruits to feed her family. A local television station, the NTV, had a few weeks before filmed graves of people who had died of starvation in the Karamoja region.

The other week Twitter became the unlikely host of a non-scripted online debate on Sino-African relations.

Vegetables grown on African farms are sold in retail outlets in Europe and the Middle East, while the aroma of coffee, tea and cocoa grown in her fields fills the air in most coffee and confectionery shops, outside of which the scent of flowers grown with her water fills the sidewalks.

The debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is loud and highly polarised across the world. On the one hand there are the supporters, who are convinced that GMOs are the key to food security and that the claims made against them have no basis in science.

Homa Bay hospital in the late 1990s was a scene of despondency, its wards crowded with people ravaged by AIDS. “There was virtually no space in the medical wards, even beside or under the beds,” remembers Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)- Doctor´s Without Borders, then head of mission.

On 11 March 2014 Bob Crow, leader of the National Union of Railway, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) of Britain died suddenly of a suspected heart attack at the age of 52.

GHANA’S PLANT BREEDERS’ BILL

THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
Ministry of Health

10th February 2014

I. INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will in 2014, through its Committee on World Food Security [1], advocate principles concerning what are called ‘responsible agricultural investments’.