NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 5 – In a resounding call to action, experts and various stakeholders from across 6 African countries say the feed and fodder sector must be reformed for its full potential to be realized.
At the center of the calls is the need to involve women in a more pivotal role, in a bid to drive economic growth and foster resilience in the face of global challenges like climate change, global COVID-19 pandemic and conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
“We must change the narrative,” African Union-InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resoruce’s (AU-IBAR) Dr Sarah Ashanut Ossiya said. “It is us who decide it and to articulate it.”
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https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/business/article/2001489615/kenya-hosts-high-level-meeting-on-livestock-sector-challengesAfrican Union-InterAfrican for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) Director Dr Huyam Salih said the three crises commonly referred to as “the three C’s” exposed Africa’s vulnerability, leading to eroded livelihoods, loss of incomes, and driven up prices of highly nutritive livestock sourced foods making them inaccessible to sections of the population that need them most.
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A high-level meeting meant to adopt strategies to address the current Africa's feed and fodder crisis kicked off in Nairobi on Monday, bringing together a host of experts from the continent.
The five-day Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems (RAFFS) Project Technical and Steering Committee meeting is being hosted by the African Union-InterAfrican for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR).
The RAFFS Project was rolled out in January 2023 and has focused on understanding the situation of the effect of the global COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the feed and fodder sector.
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