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1985 - 07 : Attempting to tackle food aid dependency, our Belgian team of scientists and technicians developed a method with a water and fertilizer stocking compopund. Local food production makes food aid superfluous. Here a view on our first experiments in Camberene/Dakar, Senegal (Photo WVC)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/us-spends-10-mln-to-tackle-food-aid-dependency-in-north-kenya
US spends $10 mln to tackle food aid dependency in north Kenya
Lack of rain and desertification have it difficult to grow food in northern Kenya, making the region increasingly food insecure.
NAIROBI (AlertNet) – The United States is spending $10 million in a five-year programme to try to combat dependency on food aid in Kenya’s arid north, officials announced on Friday.
Nearly 75 percent of the 500,000 people living around Lake Turkana, near Kenya’s border with Sudan and Ethiopia, rely upon food aid, according to U.S. figures.
The Turkana Food Security Programme, funded by the U.S. government’s African Development Foundation, will focus on irrigation, livestock and fisheries projects. These aim to make more food available locally, as well as producing goods for market.
“It is possible to grow vegetables, grow even grains, in Turkana. And the people are beginning to adapt to this new way of life,” said Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the programme launch.
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