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 March 16, 2012
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African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowships): The Gender and Diversity program invites applications for fellowships under the AWARD Program. The fellowship will support African agricultural women scientists from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia with PhD degrees, including those in post-doctoral positions and women scientists with MA/MSc/MPhil/BA/BSc degrees. […]
