📢Food Dialogue Alert!
📅3rd March 2025
Next Tuesday, our ED, @PascalMurasira joins a global panel to explore how shifting power shapes global food security and how food can remain accessible and affordable for everyone.
Sign up now! 👉 https://t.co/8lfRh3SJEk
The Kirinyaga Agroecology Multistakeholders Forum Strategy session marked a key step toward institutionalizing agroecology in Kirinyaga County with Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya spearheading the process
Special thanks to Dr. Gachara John for championing this.
Mangoes are rotting in our farms this season- yet how many hospitals have deliberately procured them for patient meals? Fruits are clinically valuable, micronutrient-dense foods that support wound healing, immune recovery, appetite stimulation, and overall nutritional rehabilitation. In surgical wards, oncology units, and malnutrition cases, simple fruit purées, fortified juices, or enriched meals can meaningfully improve intake and recovery outcomes. Proper patient meals are part of therapy.
Under the Ministry of Health, Kenya, hospital feeding is often treated as routine catering rather than therapeutic care. Yet it is entirely possible to align agricultural abundance with institutional procurement, reduce post-harvest losses, and serve patients fresh, nutrient-rich meals that aid recovery. When food systems and health systems work together, we strengthen farmers, protect public resources, and improve patient outcomes. Seasonal abundance should translate into clinical strength.
#FoodJustice #RightToFood #ChakulaNiHaki #Agroecology @aphrc
As one of the five contributing authors, I’m pleased to share the Lancet Global Health synthesis of our regional perspectives for reforming the global health architecture. The publication doesn't give a blueprint, but offers deep critiques on financing, equity-sensitive metrics,
The Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) program is helping farmers transition from chemically intensive agriculture to Community-Managed Natural Farming — improving climate and social resilience.
Learn more: 🔗 https://t.co/YuBjg5K35z
#Trees4Resilience
🚨Join us this Friday, 11/7/2025, from 11AM to 1PM for our side event "Implementing Kenya’s National Agroecology Strategy: The Road Ahead"
📍 2nd National Agroecology Symposium
📌 Kenya School of Monetary Studies
Be part of the conversation shaping the future of agroecology in🇰🇪
“Beyond food & the environment, agroecology strengthens mental health resilience, especially in drought-prone communities. By reducing the risk of total crop loss through diversified farming, it brings stability & eases the anxiety linked to food insecurity.” @Liz_Kimani@aphrc
At @UNFPA's Global Launch of the 2025 State of the World Population Report (SOWP) hosted at APHRC, the Center's Executive Director, @CKyobutungi, shared the following:
"We welcome you to APHRC. This is the first time a launch of this kind by UNFPA has been held on African soil, and we are proud to host such an important event. APHRC isn't just a venue — we are a critical partner leading evidence generation and use. It is befitting that this launch is taking place here."
Her three reflections on the report:
✅ Behind numbers are people, and the choices they make. The central theme of the report is about human dignity - everything we do is about people.
✅ Africa is often the subject, rather than a participant, in discussions about issues affecting its people. I am glad to see that Africans are part of the conversation.
✅ We live in interesting times - I hope that the launch is not the end, but the beginning of important discussions and a process that will positively impact people's lives across the world, reframing the conversation on what crises are affecting them.
#TheRealFertilityCrisis #WeAreAfrica
@amveyange@CwKabiru@Liz_Kimani@DMdiarafa@Sidze_APHRC@RatemoJuliet@aiajayi@agnes_kiragga@isabelmutuku1@Wekesah@DKadengye@FlorahKarimi@dorcas_odhiambo@dibabay@WaithereroMaina@njerimbuthia@williamsila
Big win for food sovereignty! 🎉The Cabinet of West Pokot County has adopted a farmer-led #Agroecology Policy centering indigenous knowledge, soil health & biodiversity.
Thanks to H.E @SimonKachapinK @GreenpeaceAfrica for championing safe, sustainable food!
#WestPokot
What drives smallholder farmers to plant trees?
A new study in Rwanda shows that exposure to #agroforestry practices boosts adoption, especially with sustained engagement, access to seedlings and gender-responsive support.
Read the study:➡️ https://t.co/h1RAHb2e9c
#TreesPeoplePlanet
Just 39 days ago, we began setting up a garden at the Pumwani Maternity Hospital @pumumaternity in partnership with @National_Bank. Today, after around of weeding and gapping, the farm is Thriving! - with a luscious variety of Vegetables, Spices and Herbs already showing off! First harvest is due soon, bringing #Nutrition, #Agroecology and beautiful Greenery to this vital health facility.
By #GrowYourOwn, Such institutions and schools can sustainably meet their vegetable needs #ZeroHunger
#ShambaShuleni #SustainableGardens