Care for animals key to successful livestock production
Written by Anthony Aisi and Erick Akasa   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

In a world food prize laureate seminar organized by International Livestock research Institute on Friday, the Heifer International president and the world food prize laureate winner Jo Luck said success of livestock production in Kenya and the sub-Saharan African countries at large depends on people knowing how to care for animals.

 
WFP promises to double food purchases from rural Ugandan village
Written by Anthony Aisi   
Saturday, 31 July 2010

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran pledged at the weekend to double the amount of food that the organization buys from women farmers in the Millennium Village of Ruhiira, Uganda where a strategic, integrated approach to rural development is already changing lives.

 
AU to mobile resources for child and maternal health, promise to review Abuja declaration
Written by Henry Neondo   
Friday, 30 July 2010

Africa’s Heads of State 15th AU Summit held in Kampala, Uganda, from 19 to 27 July adopted actions to be undertaken in various Member State, in particular the actions aimed at attaining the MDGs 4, 5 and 6, mobilisation of adequate resources for integrated health programmes up to 15% of national budgets, the sharing of best practices within regions, regular evaluation and reporting of progress achieved by Member State.

 
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Although Kenya has adopted artemether/lumefantrine (AL) as the 1st line treatment against malaria, a study in rural highland farming communities show that the drug is not getting good reception and risks being classified as failure unless measures are taken.

Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from Tanzania and sent to a ’secretive’ laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments, it has been revealed.

Kenya’s civil society organizations are up in arms against brokers and brokers who have invaded the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol and are offering as little as USD20 per surviving 1000, trees meant to sequestrate Carbon.

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) announced recently in Kampala, Uganda a public-private partnership to develop drought-tolerant maize varieties for Africa through gene manipulations---a marked difference from the stand taken by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.

Nigeria-born and internationally renowned genetic epidemiologist Charles N. Rotimi is to head a newly established US’s National Institutes of Health Intramural Center for Genomics and Health Disparities (NICGHD) announced last week.

The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity has said renewing agricultural diversity of crops and livestock backed by a functional natural support system is the best long-term solution to meet the global food challenge.

Algeria’s Ministry of health, Population and Hospital Reform announced Wednesday that about one million people have been vaccinated against seasonal flu until November 22.

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