Nutrition
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Uganda’s Freza Nanotech wins FAO Innovation Award 2024 for pioneering fruit preservation technology
ROME, December 5, 2024 – Freza Nanotech Limited, a startup from Uganda, has won the 2024 Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations [ FAO ] Innovation Award for developing a…
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Empower Women, Transform Communities: Join the YAMNA-RCAL Grain for Good Campaign
RABAT, November 18, 2024 — Resourced, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming food systems for an abundant future, launched the YAMNA-RCAL Grain for Good Campaign, running from November 1, 2024, to January 10,…
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Scribes equipped with skills to tell climate change stories
SOROTI, August 14, 2024 – Journalists operating in Teso Subregion have been trained in telling climate change stories better so that they can cause action from the concerned stakeholders. The training was…
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Museveni calls for production of more FMD vaccines
GOMBA, May 27, 2024 – President Yoweri Museveni has called for a collaboration between Uganda, and Egypt aimed at producing more Foot and Mouth Disease [ FMD ] vaccines to treat the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Govt official wants dairy cooperatives in Bunyoro supported with value addition plant
MASINDI, April 12, 2024 – Annet Kyomuhendo, the Midwestern Regional Manager for the Dairy Development Authority [DDA], has asked government to establish a modern processing plant for dairy cooperatives in Bunyoro Sub-region,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Brazilian family farmer encourages work of other rural women in providing food for school feeding
BRASILIA, March 26, 2024– Family farmer Rita de Cássia Alves has been president of the AgroVerde Cooperative, located in Guapimirim, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2021. In her…
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Preserve genetic materials for future generations, EAC Partner States told
NAIROBI, March 10, 2024 – The 3rd East African Community [EAC] Regional Science, Technology and Innovation [STI] Conference ended in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday with a resolution calling on Partner States and…
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Fort Portal City: Street food vendors empowered to keep food safety standards
FORT PORTAL, February 29, 2024 – In a bid to ensure the serving of safe and nutritious food to their clients, Kabarole Research and Resource Center Uganda [KRC] has trained street food…
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Africa
Malnutrition affecting over 80mln children in Africa, experts warn
ADDIS ABABA, February 19, 2024 – Africa’s children are paying a huge price for malnutrition, a high-level round table convened by the African Union and African Leaders for Nutrition Champion heard Friday…
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Agriculture
Adjumani refugees adapt to climate change in fight against food insecurity, malnutrition
ADJUMANI, November 21, 2023 – A number of development partners are supporting refugees in Uganda to adapt to the impacts of climate change to fight food insecurity and malnutrition. One of the…
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