By Samuel Wamuttu on February 14, 2017
according to the latest Food Price Monitoring and Analysis Bulletin (FPMA), and some 6.2 million people, crucial for local growing seasons, drought that is hammering the sub-region, East Africa, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), is denting farm output, Kenya, livestock, livestock sciences, Local prices of maize, Mario Zappacosta, more than half of the country's total population, now face acute food insecurity, pastoralists in the region, Poor and erratic rainfall in recent months, Somalia, Somalia's maize and sorghum harvests are estimated to be 75 percent down from their usual level, sorghum and other cereals are near or at record levels in swathes of Ethiopia, South Sudan, stand in marked contrast to the stable trend of FAO's Food Price Index, town markets, uganda, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, united republic of tanzania, where food stocks were already depleted by the strong El Niño weather, which measures the monthly change in international prices of a basket of traded food commodities, with the majority of those most affected living in rural areasArusha
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The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has raised an alarm over the current ravaging d rought throughout East Africa that has sharply curbed harvests and pushed the prices of cereals and other staple foods to unusually high levels, posing a heavy burden to households and special risks for pastoralists in the […]
By Gerald Businge on December 21, 2011
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At least 10 people have been arrested by the police and Kampala Capital City Authority staff for grazing cows and other animals in the city. Moses Kasasira, John Gumisiriza, his brother Robert gumisiriziza and Ronald Kwesiga among others are detained at Katwe police. The statement from KCCA indicates that keeping animals in the city contravenes section 6 […]
