World Food Day: Malnourished amidst potential plenty

World Food Day is organised to bring awareness to how our changing planet affects food production and distribution as well as examine how agriculture needs to adopt due to climate change, to how migration affects food security. 

 Forty three years down the road, about 70 percent of children in Uganda still study on empty stomachs, 24.4 percent of children under 5 years are stunted, over 3.2 percent are wasted and 9.7percent are underweight. Uganda recognises nutrition as a critical development issue that impacts multiple sectors including health, education and overall human capital…