ARTICLES RELATING TO
FOOD SECURITY
Uhuru Kenyatta finds himself in a position where vacations will be rare if any.
Local production in the agriculture sector would go a long way to promoting food security and job creation in SA, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.
The chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture John Mututho has said four million Kenyans suffer from starvation every year.
Residents in Malindi and the larger Magarini districts need urgent relief food due to crop failure caused by delay of short rains.
A World Bank report says Africa's farmers can potentially grow enough food to avert crises if countries remove cross-border restrictions within the region.
Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade, World Bank says.
South Africa is over-dependent on markets and retailers for its food needs, says Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
A recently released report is raising an alarm over the undermining of efforts being put in place to support food security and biodiversity.
President Mwai Kibaki has directed that a technical team be formed to investigate New Viral Strain virus which has attacked maize crop.
The UN says hunger is worsening in Zimbabwe after erratic rains, shortages of seeds and fertilizer and "poor agricultural practices".
Farmers in Nakuru North District have been challenged to adopt new farming techniques in order to boost production.
Commercial farmers account for 95% of the country's locally-produced food, with the rest being produced by emerging and subsistence farmers, a study has found.
Absa's head of agribusiness has cautioned that the rise in agricultural commodity prices is posing a growing threat to food security.
Zimbabwe's Commercial Framers' Union has criticized the country's draft constitution, saying it does not guarantee security of tenure for land.
SA is placed 40th out of 105 countries in a global food security index, with the US in the top spot and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the bottom.
