Route to Food

  Every one of us has the right to food and it cannot be denied. This right to food is also guaranteed by international law. By right to food, we mean that every individual must have the right to adequate food and dignity.   Food security means that all people have physical and economic access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food and this food should meet our dietary needs giving us a healthy life. So, the availability of food is the major component of food security.   Route to food initiative  is one of the steps to increase the availability of food in Kenya and provide  hunger relief in Africa, Kenya . The whole purpose of this is to make food affordable to the common masses. The  right to food in Kenya’s constitution  is embedded properly. It gives the duty to the government to take steps to increase food availability in Kenya. So, it is the constitutional duty of the government to ensure the right to food for every citizen. Article 43 of Kenya'...

  The pesticide industry has increased worldwide selling products on a larger scale. They make commercial ads by depicting their products to be the best. We all know that pesticides degrade the environment and are bad for soil quality. The more you use pesticides, the more productivity of the soil will degrade. Pesticides in Kenya have been used for a long time and now the condition is such that the country is not able to fulfil the demand for food for the citizens. There are many initiatives taken to mitigate the problem of food. One of them is Route to food initiative , this project is aimed at restoring agriculture and food security. Four pillars of food security need to be established to achieve food security in Kenya . The right to food in Kenya’s constitution is embodied in article 43 of the constitution. This confers upon the government the duty to mitigate the hunger problems in the country and make policies to restore food security. Food systems in Kenya can be made...

  Food is a source of energy that has been gifted by nature to all the creatures on the earth. However, food is not adequately distributed all over the earth. However, inadequate food will lead to deficiencies, obesity and other health issues. So, to resolve this issue, the UN has presented the route to the food initiative . The UN agencies are taking the initiative to offer healthy food for every citizen in Africa. Food systems in Kenya are making effort to provide a nutritional diet and healthy food for all the citizens. The food system is a vital part of any country, and it is the outcome of natural resources, economic growth and other socio-cultural factors. There has been a close relationship between optimum climate and the health of the human body. The climate changes can affect the food supply and even price rise of food and also affect the healthy food for the population. The poor quality of children's diet is the major point of all types of malnutrition and also affec...

Food Security is necessary for every country to feed its citizens at all times with safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary requirements. Thus every citizen who has adequate food will offer active and healthy life. Thus food systems in Kenya led to the foundation of four pillars of food security that are access, availability, utilization and stability. Inadequate food insecurity leads to deficiencies, overweight and obesity. Thus, UN agencies are presenting new routes to food initiatives for achieving the goal of attaining complete nutrition for every citizen and offering nutrition and high-quality food for all. These four pillars of food security require a sufficient amount of food to be available for all. The physical and economic access to food should be available with all adequate infrastructures. It also defines the stability of the supply of food and accessibility of food. However, it also states that effective food safety and hygiene should be applied in the pr...

Satisfying hungry people and that too with dignity is a noble task. Today, when humanity is needed the most with global pandemics striking in, is the most difficult task too. There are many organizations, that are striving hard to feed as many hungry people as possible, different methods of agriculture are being processed. Agricultural lands tend to lose their richness due to many possibilities and the most prominent one is environmental hazards.  Agriculture and Food security  is the basic need of any population for basic survival. And with the lands losing their richness it is difficult to produce nourished plantations. Just offering food for  Hunger relief in Africa, Kenya  might not be enough but, the food provided to them needs to have basic nourishment. And for that matter, agroecology is speeding up. In this article, some points about what is agroecology are mentioned along with what are the basic principles of agroecology. With  Route to food Initiative,...

  It is the bitter truth that many of us waste our food while many people are still dying for having nutritious food. Hunger Relief is the crucial step towards a top action in the world. The Hunger relief in Africa, Kenya is stepped up more than thirty countries and now the main goal is the procedure with the improved livelihood of malnourished people & children. ·        Sub-Saharan region is suffering from extreme poverty where net income will be less than 1.9$ each day. ·        Millions of people are lagging behind pure drinking water. ·        Many people in Africa are undernourished state. ·        After Asia, Africa has the second largest population for a lower hunger index. ·        For the global survey, it is found that there are over 811 million people undergoing malnutrition and below the poverty line. H...

Hunger is unstoppable in Africa and the Covid19 pandemic, the condition is turning more severe. While there are many factors like drought, conflict, extreme weather, and economic woes in Africa, as a human we cannot deny our responsibility. Agriculture and Food Security are the biggest challenges in Kenya while overall 250 million people in Africa are still dying over it. Some people are experiencing the risk of starvation, and some are dying from food acute food & malnutrition. We cannot change the weather pattern or their economic issues, but there is something we can do from our social initiative. The global marshalling for finding resources is proving major financial help for Hunger relief in Africa, Kenya . In another case, some countries are trying their best to improve their socio-economic conditions. In Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Kenya, and Mozambique, successive crop failure and lack of production support are giving a bearish move in their livelihood. Especially in...