{"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":"
Meals Sustainability<\/span>\t\t\t<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\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