{"id":2489,"date":"2022-01-02T01:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/01\/02\/high-yield-seeds-could-address-food-shortages-and-place-africa-on-track-to-zero-hunger-experts\/"},"modified":"2022-01-02T01:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T01:17:46","slug":"high-yield-seeds-could-address-food-shortages-and-place-africa-on-track-to-zero-hunger-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africannewspaper.net\/2022\/01\/02\/high-yield-seeds-could-address-food-shortages-and-place-africa-on-track-to-zero-hunger-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"High Yield Seeds Could Address Food Shortages and Place Africa on Track to Zero Hunger – Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maize is a crucial meals safety crop in sub-Saharan Africa with greater than 40 million hectares of farmlands devoted to maize farming in a minimum of 32 international locations. Credit score: Joyce Chimbi\/IPS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nairobi, Kenya, Dec 16 2021 (IPS) <\/span>– Rahab Munene\u2019s shoe promoting enterprise crumbled on the peak of COVID-19 in 2020. She traded the enterprise for a cell grocery alongside the Thika Superhighway, Kiambu County. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son and I purchase fruits, greens and cereals immediately from farmers. This labored very nicely to start with as a result of folks didn’t wish to depart their properties for worry of coronavirus. At this time, meals costs are very excessive, and plenty of households are shopping for immediately from farmers as a result of it’s cheaper,\u201d she tells IPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 90 kg bag of maize is now going for a minimum of $27 \u2013 up from $23 a month in the past. Our enterprise is not breaking even.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October 2021, the Kenya Nationwide Bureau of Statistics indicated that the price of meals in Kenya confirmed an unprecedented improve of 10.6 % in contrast with the identical month in 2020.<\/p>\n

UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)<\/a> signifies a equally unprecedented improve, by over 60 %, of acute meals insecurity in Africa over the previous yr.<\/p>\n

In Africa, there’s a must overhaul the meals programs to incorporate nutritious crops and diets which might be local weather and extreme climate resilient.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld meals programs current a posh and multi-faceted set of challenges from farm to fork,\u201d the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BDFN) <\/a>says. Utilizing science and greatest follow, BCFN has developed a system of inserting the Well being and Local weather Pyramids side-by-side. The Double Pyramid<\/a> immediately illustrates a balanced, wholesome, and sustainable eating regimen.<\/p>\n

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BCFN double pyramid highlights meals programs which might be each wholesome and good for the planet. Credit score: BCFN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Confronted with meals insecurity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, BCFN has referred to as for sustainable meals options.<\/p>\n

Certainly one of these options, says Desmond Kipkorir, a Kenyan-based seed programs analyst in East and Southern Africa, ensures that farmers have high-yielding seeds to match the myriad of challenges going through the African farmer.<\/p>\n

The 2019 Entry to Seeds Index notes that \u201clower than 10 % of the world\u2019s smallholder farmers have entry to improved and high quality seeds that may halt and tolerate local weather change impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kipkorir tells IPS the newest information reveals regardless of a rising non-public seed sector to enhance public seed sectors and intensive rural agro-dealers, farmers are nonetheless unable to entry the high-quality seeds they want and on time.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeds programs contain much more than the manufacturing of seeds. They embrace all of the elements that result in the well timed supply of produced seeds to farmers at an reasonably priced worth. As latest as 2016, as much as 90 % of farmers in Africa relied on casual seed programs,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He says that uncertified seeds can not counter the threats posed by local weather change and excessive climate, land degradation and decreasing farmlands, water and power constraints, and an ever-growing demand for meals in tandem with a rising inhabitants.<\/p>\n

\u201cCasual seeds programs are exterior the management of presidency companies. The standard of unregulated and uncertified seeds is simply too poor to handle at this time\u2019s challenges. Seeds saved from earlier harvests, borrowed from neighbours and people purchased from native markets are missing in lots of elements,\u201d Chelangat Ochieng from the Ministry of Agriculture tells IPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cUncertified seeds are sometimes accessible, accessible and reasonably priced to farmers. However they aren’t adaptable. They lack germination vigour and illness resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specialists akin to Kipkorir warn that the prevailing yield hole will solely widen and, with it, an increase in meals costs.<\/p>\n

Ochieng says the Agricultural Commodity Value Index stabilized within the third quarter of 2021. All the identical, the value index is 14 % increased than it was in January 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaize and wheat costs are 44 % and 38 % increased, respectively, than their pre-pandemic, January 2020, ranges,\u201d the index signifies.<\/p>\n

Confirming challenges going through Munene\u2019s cell grocer, the index reveals excessive retail costs. Equally, different indices verify excessive meals worth inflation on the retail stage globally.<\/p>\n

FAO\u2019s Food Price Index<\/a>, a measure of the month-to-month change in worldwide costs of a basket of meals commodities, launched in November 2021, confirmed the fourth consecutive month-to-month rise within the worth of the meals worth index.<\/p>\n

Costs for cereals and dairy rose considerably, adopted by sugar and that the November 2021 index was at its highest stage since June 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal weather change is right here with us, and inhabitants development is inserting a variety of stress on accessible farmland. Governments and the non-public sector must strengthen three pillars of meals safety, high quality of seeds, enter and good agricultural practices,\u201d Kipkorir tells IPS.<\/p>\n

Towards this backdrop, the African Seed Entry Index, a seed business analysis initiative, signifies that nationwide seed programs on the continent are at various phases of improvement.<\/p>\n

Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia have established mechanisms for seed inspection and that Mozambique, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania are on observe.<\/p>\n

Kipkorir says this can be a step in the proper route however decries the commonly excessive price of licensed seeds. He urges governments to subsidize seed costs to make sure that farmers plant seeds that may face up to local weather, climate dangers and crop illnesses.<\/p>\n

He requires maize seed subsidies within the area. He warns that much more extreme meals insecurity looms if farmers don’t entry high quality, excessive yielding maize seeds.<\/p>\n

In response to the FAO, maize is a staple and a crucial meals safety crop in sub-Saharan Africa, with greater than 40 million hectares of farmlands devoted to maize farming in a minimum of 32 international locations within the area.<\/p>\n

The African Seed Access Index<\/a> reveals that Western and Central Africa lag behind different areas of Africa in seed firm presence and investments in native seed enterprise actions, together with seed breeding, manufacturing, and processing.<\/p>\n

General, the Index notes important progress in Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Different international locations, such because the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Madagascar, are notably lagging as a result of they’re characterised by \u201cunder-funded authorities seed companies, poorly carried out seed laws and a wide range of weak non-public sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

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