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Region abandons pro-GMO arena as Kenya awaits first seed import
Monday, November 28, 2022
Anti-GMO activists demonstrating in Nairobi on December 8, 2016. Kenya now stands alone in the region as far as the importation and growing of genetically modified organisms is concerned. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
By The East African
What you need to know:
- On October 4, Kenya lifted a ban on GMOs imposed in 2012, and the country is poised to import 11 tonnes of GMO maize seed, in what the government has justified as a solution to perennial food shortage and drought cycles.
Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi have all said they are not open to GMOs, and the wider East African Community concurs.
On October 4, Kenya lifted a ban on GMOs imposed in 2012, and the country is poised to import 11 tonnes of GMO maize seed, in what the government has justified as a solution to perennial food shortage and drought cycles.
This week, Kenya said the GMO seeds from South Africa are expected in the country from January and will be distributed to farmers including those bordering neighbouring countries.
Ordered maize seed
The National Biosafety Authority said Tuesday that it had ordered the maize seed.
Tanzania has made it clear that consumption of GMO products whether imported or sourced locally will remain forbidden until global research into attendant biotechnology issues are brought to a logical conclusion.
According to Agriculture minister Hussein Bashe, the government is closely monitoring the situation in Kenya and preparing to introduce border checks to ensure GMO food and/or seeds are kept out.
“Despite obvious proximity issues, Kenya’s move does not affect our own position [on GMOs) which remains unchanged. We are sticking to hybrid and open-pollinated crop varieties, which according to our own studies, are more productive and commercially viable than GMO varieties,” Mr Bashe said.
Academic pursuit
The minister did not specify when or how the border controls would start being imposed. Only a few institutions in Tanzania are understood to have suitable facilities for GM product testing, among them the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro and Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology in Arusha.
Tanzania cancelled its own GMO seed trial programme in January 2021, citing the need to conserve the country’s natural crops’ legacy.
According to Mr Bashe, any decision to restart the trials will depend on extensive research findings and their endorsement by local experts.
“If the trials ever resume, they will be conducted under strict supervision and for academic purposes only, not commercial,” he said.
In 2019, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda for the second time rejected a Bill that would have advanced growth and importation of GMOs. However, the National Agricultural Research Organisation and Uganda National Council for Science and Technology have been making inroads in GMOs research.
Well-equipped labs
David Livingstone Ebiru, the executive director of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards said GMOs remain banned. He, however told The EastAfrican that Uganda has well-equipped laboratories at the border points, which can test for chemical and biological content in any food products in the event that banned items find their way from Kenya.
Uganda also said it is banking on an East Africa standards committee, which enforces restrictions on what is acceptable or not, to provide policy direction.
And stakeholders like the Dar es Salaam-based African Organic Network have raised concerns about the potential impact on the local food market once GM products become accepted and established among consumers just next door.
Imported foods certification
GM and biotechnology issues in Tanzania are handled by the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute and Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute, which are both government units. The Tanzania Bureau of Standards, also state-run, is ultimately responsible for imported foods certification.
But even as the Kenya government remains adamant on GMOs, there is social and political pushback from various quarters staring with maize farmers who will be most affected. Opposition politicians also accuse President William Ruto of refusing to rely on scientific to ascertain safety.
“GMO is not allowed in Burundi. Even importation is prohibited. Only hybrids are allowed, and even for these, you have to get authorization to import,” Clement Ndikumasabo, Burundi’s Director General of Mobilisation for Self-development and Agriculture Extension, told The EastAfrican. But, also, the country lacks capacity to test for GMO.
Region abandons pro-GMO arena as Kenya awaits first seed import
Tanzania cancelled GMO seed trial programme in January 2021, citing the need to conserve country’s natural crops’ legacy.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
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Chapati 3 nzito na bakuli la roast ya viazi na nyama usiku? Buda that was not hunger, was famine………hizi ni dalili za mtu anayekula kwa kubahatisha, kwani hujala toka lini?😂😂
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Ukraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 2022
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (left) and Iceland's Thordis Gylfadottir attend a joint news conference in Kyiv on November 28, 2022. Kuleba said Ukraine would donate grains to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis in Africa. PHOTO | VALENTYN OGIRENKO | POOL | AFP
By VINCENT OWINO
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Kenya, South Sudan, and Somalia are among African countries which will benefit from a donation of grains from Ukraine meant to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis on the continent, despite Kyiv’s own internal woes in the face of a war with Russia.
Kyiv has partnered with international donors including the European Union to establish the “Grain from Ukraine Humanitarian Programme”, which will enable several hunger-stricken countries in Africa and Asia receive food donations from the war-torn eastern European nation.
Speaking to African journalists from Kyiv on Monday, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said the programme seeks to lift at least five million Africans out of the growing food insecurity crisis, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of his country.
“This will be possible through the dispatch of one to 10 ships per month in 2023. We invite partners from all over the world to join the programme and allocate finances for purchasing ships with Ukrainian grain that are then shipped to the most vulnerable countries free of charge,” Mr Kuleba said.
Countries contributing
Already, there are over 20 countries and the European Union contributing to the programme, with Ukraine also drawing finances from its “war-torn budget” to purchase the grains for donation to Africa, Mr Kuleba said.Last Saturday, 29 countries, including Ukraine, meeting at the International Summit on Food Security, fundraised almost $150 million for the programme. Mr Kuleba said several ships with Ukrainian grain are already enroute to Africa and that the food will be given free of charge.
Through the programme, “Ukraine plans to ship at least 60 large vessels,” Mr Kuleba said.
Other African countries expected to benefit from the donations include Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Ukraine, which accounted for close to half of the world’s grain exports before the invasion by Russia in February 2022, has significantly fallen back on trade as a consequence of the war.
Exports from Russia, Ukraine
Previously, at least 10 percent of the world’s wheat exports came from Kyiv and it accounted for about 20 percent of barley exports and 50 percent of sunflower oil exports. Since the war started, there were barely any exports coming out of the country.Given that 32 percent of all African wheat imports come from Russia and 12 percent from Ukraine, the eastern European conflict has heavily impacted the African population.
The brokerage of the black sea grain deal between Russia, Ukraine and the government of Turkey, however, provided a lifeline for many African countries in which food prices were already spiralling as a result of the war, but Russia has since walked back on the deal.
In a recent report assessing the impact of the Ukraine war on the African population, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa projected that by end 2022, it will have pushed nearly 310 million Africans into food insecurity and increase those facing acute hunger by six million.
Currently, there are about 4.5 million people in Kenya facing acute food insecurity and in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, according to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad). In the entire region, about 40 million people need food aid.
Food insecurity
Ukraine says it cannot stand by and watch as hunger ravages people when there is something it can do, hence the formation of the programme, notwithstanding its current predicament of the ongoing war.“Russia’s war has hit hard not only our country, but countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond. This is why the programme is so important to help alleviate the food insecurity for millions of people across the world,” Mr Kuleba said.
According to the minister, Kyiv’s inspiration is “the genocide by starvation”, a man-made famine initiated through confiscation of food products from Ukrainians by the Soviet government under the leadership of Joseph Stalin between 1931 and 1932.
“For us, it’s a historical trauma, and we promised two things to ourselves: first, no country will ever do the same to Ukrainians, and second, that anytime we can help others to avoid famine, we will be doing so,” Kuleba told journalists.
Need basis
While Kyiv also continues to rally more African countries to stand strongly against Russia’s insurgency in its borders, the minister maintained that the choice of countries receiving the aid was purely based on need and not political affiliation.Ethiopia, for instance, abstained from the October UN resolution to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but is among the first countries that are confirmed to be receiving the donation.
After his trip to Africa in October, Mr Kuleba said he would like the African countries which abstained from the vote, including Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi, to strongly take a stance against the invasion.
“Of course, all we want is for African countries to be vocal in condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This picture is black and white, and we expect African countries to take a fair stance on this aggression,” he said on Monday.
Ukraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
Ukraine says choice of countries receiving the aid is purely based on need and not political affiliation.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
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juzi na jana umepata kuona nilicho weza kukula kama lunch, ama snack ya jioni ama ata supper ....
ndio nikiwaambia on average kenya hatunanga njaa ama hatulalangi njaa, elewa buda..
hizo hunger striken areas mnazo ziona kwenye TV ni the only selected or highlighted northern arid areas pekee, hasa nyakati hizi za kiangazi kama ya ssahivi..
otherwise majority of us kenyans..
as in, more than >90% mostly found in the southern, central and coastal fertile regions, hatujui kitu kinaitwa njaa masera wangu....
nb:
hapa nimegundua, tukila vibaya mtaongea vibaya tu.. vilevile tukila vizuri, bado hamtakosa kibaya cha kuongea ...
'eti famine?' na ilhali umeona kenye nilikula juzi na jana kama mfano tu ya siku za kawaida ya mkenya wa kawaida kama mimi.....
give credit where its due..
sio kila nyakati kukashif na kuponda....
heb na myatafakari hayo kimoyomoyo nyie wabongo... 🤔🤔
Birds of the same feathers Kenya, South Sudan and SomaliaUkraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 2022
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (left) and Iceland's Thordis Gylfadottir attend a joint news conference in Kyiv on November 28, 2022. Kuleba said Ukraine would donate grains to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis in Africa. PHOTO | VALENTYN OGIRENKO | POOL | AFP
By VINCENT OWINO
More by this Author
Kenya, South Sudan, and Somalia are among African countries which will benefit from a donation of grains from Ukraine meant to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis on the continent, despite Kyiv’s own internal woes in the face of a war with Russia.
Kyiv has partnered with international donors including the European Union to establish the “Grain from Ukraine Humanitarian Programme”, which will enable several hunger-stricken countries in Africa and Asia receive food donations from the war-torn eastern European nation.
Speaking to African journalists from Kyiv on Monday, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said the programme seeks to lift at least five million Africans out of the growing food insecurity crisis, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of his country.
“This will be possible through the dispatch of one to 10 ships per month in 2023. We invite partners from all over the world to join the programme and allocate finances for purchasing ships with Ukrainian grain that are then shipped to the most vulnerable countries free of charge,” Mr Kuleba said.
Countries contributing
Already, there are over 20 countries and the European Union contributing to the programme, with Ukraine also drawing finances from its “war-torn budget” to purchase the grains for donation to Africa, Mr Kuleba said.
Last Saturday, 29 countries, including Ukraine, meeting at the International Summit on Food Security, fundraised almost $150 million for the programme. Mr Kuleba said several ships with Ukrainian grain are already enroute to Africa and that the food will be given free of charge.
Through the programme, “Ukraine plans to ship at least 60 large vessels,” Mr Kuleba said.
Other African countries expected to benefit from the donations include Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Ukraine, which accounted for close to half of the world’s grain exports before the invasion by Russia in February 2022, has significantly fallen back on trade as a consequence of the war.
Exports from Russia, Ukraine
Previously, at least 10 percent of the world’s wheat exports came from Kyiv and it accounted for about 20 percent of barley exports and 50 percent of sunflower oil exports. Since the war started, there were barely any exports coming out of the country.
Given that 32 percent of all African wheat imports come from Russia and 12 percent from Ukraine, the eastern European conflict has heavily impacted the African population.
The brokerage of the black sea grain deal between Russia, Ukraine and the government of Turkey, however, provided a lifeline for many African countries in which food prices were already spiralling as a result of the war, but Russia has since walked back on the deal.
In a recent report assessing the impact of the Ukraine war on the African population, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa projected that by end 2022, it will have pushed nearly 310 million Africans into food insecurity and increase those facing acute hunger by six million.
Currently, there are about 4.5 million people in Kenya facing acute food insecurity and in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, according to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad). In the entire region, about 40 million people need food aid.
Food insecurity
Ukraine says it cannot stand by and watch as hunger ravages people when there is something it can do, hence the formation of the programme, notwithstanding its current predicament of the ongoing war.
“Russia’s war has hit hard not only our country, but countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond. This is why the programme is so important to help alleviate the food insecurity for millions of people across the world,” Mr Kuleba said.
According to the minister, Kyiv’s inspiration is “the genocide by starvation”, a man-made famine initiated through confiscation of food products from Ukrainians by the Soviet government under the leadership of Joseph Stalin between 1931 and 1932.
“For us, it’s a historical trauma, and we promised two things to ourselves: first, no country will ever do the same to Ukrainians, and second, that anytime we can help others to avoid famine, we will be doing so,” Kuleba told journalists.
Need basis
While Kyiv also continues to rally more African countries to stand strongly against Russia’s insurgency in its borders, the minister maintained that the choice of countries receiving the aid was purely based on need and not political affiliation.
Ethiopia, for instance, abstained from the October UN resolution to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but is among the first countries that are confirmed to be receiving the donation.
After his trip to Africa in October, Mr Kuleba said he would like the African countries which abstained from the vote, including Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi, to strongly take a stance against the invasion.
“Of course, all we want is for African countries to be vocal in condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This picture is black and white, and we expect African countries to take a fair stance on this aggression,” he said on Monday.
Ukraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
Ukraine says choice of countries receiving the aid is purely based on need and not political affiliation.
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Yani ule wali wake wa kwenye hivyo 4 star hote hata kama kinauzwa buku kwa mama ntilie sili!
Nikiendaga Kenya huwa napata shida sana mtaani. Sema nashukuru ndugu zangu wa huko ni waswahili kama mimi. Nikiwa nyumbani ni fresh tu!
joto la jiwe
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Mkuu mbona hueleweki?, Kwani Ukraine inasaidia hizo nchi kujikinga na baridi au chakula ambacho wao wanacho cha ziada?
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Cc NairobiWalkerUkraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 2022
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (left) and Iceland's Thordis Gylfadottir attend a joint news conference in Kyiv on November 28, 2022. Kuleba said Ukraine would donate grains to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis in Africa. PHOTO | VALENTYN OGIRENKO | POOL | AFP
By VINCENT OWINO
More by this Author
Kenya, South Sudan, and Somalia are among African countries which will benefit from a donation of grains from Ukraine meant to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis on the continent, despite Kyiv’s own internal woes in the face of a war with Russia.
Kyiv has partnered with international donors including the European Union to establish the “Grain from Ukraine Humanitarian Programme”, which will enable several hunger-stricken countries in Africa and Asia receive food donations from the war-torn eastern European nation.
Speaking to African journalists from Kyiv on Monday, Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said the programme seeks to lift at least five million Africans out of the growing food insecurity crisis, which has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of his country.
“This will be possible through the dispatch of one to 10 ships per month in 2023. We invite partners from all over the world to join the programme and allocate finances for purchasing ships with Ukrainian grain that are then shipped to the most vulnerable countries free of charge,” Mr Kuleba said.
Countries contributing
Already, there are over 20 countries and the European Union contributing to the programme, with Ukraine also drawing finances from its “war-torn budget” to purchase the grains for donation to Africa, Mr Kuleba said.
Last Saturday, 29 countries, including Ukraine, meeting at the International Summit on Food Security, fundraised almost $150 million for the programme. Mr Kuleba said several ships with Ukrainian grain are already enroute to Africa and that the food will be given free of charge.
Through the programme, “Ukraine plans to ship at least 60 large vessels,” Mr Kuleba said.
Other African countries expected to benefit from the donations include Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Ukraine, which accounted for close to half of the world’s grain exports before the invasion by Russia in February 2022, has significantly fallen back on trade as a consequence of the war.
Exports from Russia, Ukraine
Previously, at least 10 percent of the world’s wheat exports came from Kyiv and it accounted for about 20 percent of barley exports and 50 percent of sunflower oil exports. Since the war started, there were barely any exports coming out of the country.
Given that 32 percent of all African wheat imports come from Russia and 12 percent from Ukraine, the eastern European conflict has heavily impacted the African population.
The brokerage of the black sea grain deal between Russia, Ukraine and the government of Turkey, however, provided a lifeline for many African countries in which food prices were already spiralling as a result of the war, but Russia has since walked back on the deal.
In a recent report assessing the impact of the Ukraine war on the African population, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa projected that by end 2022, it will have pushed nearly 310 million Africans into food insecurity and increase those facing acute hunger by six million.
Currently, there are about 4.5 million people in Kenya facing acute food insecurity and in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, according to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad). In the entire region, about 40 million people need food aid.
Food insecurity
Ukraine says it cannot stand by and watch as hunger ravages people when there is something it can do, hence the formation of the programme, notwithstanding its current predicament of the ongoing war.
“Russia’s war has hit hard not only our country, but countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and beyond. This is why the programme is so important to help alleviate the food insecurity for millions of people across the world,” Mr Kuleba said.
According to the minister, Kyiv’s inspiration is “the genocide by starvation”, a man-made famine initiated through confiscation of food products from Ukrainians by the Soviet government under the leadership of Joseph Stalin between 1931 and 1932.
“For us, it’s a historical trauma, and we promised two things to ourselves: first, no country will ever do the same to Ukrainians, and second, that anytime we can help others to avoid famine, we will be doing so,” Kuleba told journalists.
Need basis
While Kyiv also continues to rally more African countries to stand strongly against Russia’s insurgency in its borders, the minister maintained that the choice of countries receiving the aid was purely based on need and not political affiliation.
Ethiopia, for instance, abstained from the October UN resolution to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but is among the first countries that are confirmed to be receiving the donation.
After his trip to Africa in October, Mr Kuleba said he would like the African countries which abstained from the vote, including Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi, to strongly take a stance against the invasion.
“Of course, all we want is for African countries to be vocal in condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. This picture is black and white, and we expect African countries to take a fair stance on this aggression,” he said on Monday.
Ukraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries
Ukraine says choice of countries receiving the aid is purely based on need and not political affiliation.
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Ukraine imeanza kusaidia Chakula nchi zenye njaa zaidi duniani, Kenya, Somalia na South Sudanjuzi na jana umepata kuona nilicho weza kukula kama lunch, ama snack ya jioni ama ata supper ....
ndio nikiwaambia on average kenya hatunanga njaa ama hatulalangi njaa, elewa buda..
hizo hunger striken areas mnazo ziona kwa TV ni the only selected or highlighted northern arid areas pekee, hasa nyakati hizi za kiangazi kama ya ssahivi..
otherwise majority of us kenyans..
as in, more than >90% mostly found in the southern, central and coastal fertile regions, hatujui kitu kinaitwa njaa masera wangu....
nb:
hapa nimegundua, tukila vibaya mtaongea vibaya tu.. vilevile tukila vizuri, bado hamtakosa kibaya cha kuongea ...
'eti famine?' na ilhali umeona kenye nilikula juzi na jana kama mfano tu ya siku za kawaida ya mkenya wa kawaida kama mimi.....
give credit where its due..
sio kila nyakati kukashif na kuponda....
heb na myatafakari hayo kimoyomoyo nyie wabongo...
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