{"id":8868,"date":"2020-01-22T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2020-01-22T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:12:09","slug":"kenyans-sleeping-hungry-while-food-is-rotting-greenpeace-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/8868\/kenyans-sleeping-hungry-while-food-is-rotting-greenpeace-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans Sleeping Hungry While Food is Rotting: Greenpeace Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, 22 January 2020 &#8211; Kenya has been ranked at position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2020-01-20-kenya-among-50-hungriest-countries-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">86 out of 117 <\/a>countries in a <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/2019%20Global%20Hunger%20Index.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Hunger Index Report<\/a>.&nbsp; This puts Kenya among 50 hungriest countries in the world. Responding to these developments, Greenpeace Africa\u2019s Food Campaigner Claire Nasike has said:<br><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt is appalling to hear that Kenya suffers from serious hunger when tonnes of food goes to waste due to poor post-harvest handling techniques. Farmers lack proper storage facilities and infrastructure among other challenges.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt is disturbing that Kenya\u2019s hunger situation has declined from a global hunger index score of 23.3&nbsp; in 2018 to 25.2 in 2019. The new Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture needs to prioritise food production as articulated in the President\u2019s Big 4 agenda. A nation without adequate and nutritious food cannot engage in any nation-building efforts.<br><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cTo boost domestic food production, the Ministry needs to ensure that farmers have access to proper and timely information on the weather patterns, efficient storage facilities, access to markets,&nbsp; adequate water during dry periods and access to indigenous seeds that are well adapted to the local climate.<br><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe Ministry also needs to encourage the consumption of indigenous food that is nutritious and healthy to curb the problem of undernourishment. This will encourage more farmers to grow these foods thus increasing their availability locally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><br>Hellen Dena, Communication Officer, <a href=\"mailto:hdena@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hdena@greenpeace.org<\/a>, +254 717 104 144<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 22 January 2020 &#8211; Kenya has been ranked at position 86 out of 117 countries in a Global Hunger Index Report.&nbsp; This puts Kenya among 50 hungriest countries in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":8869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"[caption id=\"attachment_8869\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1200\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-8869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2020\/01\/8e401247-gp0stp72o.jpg\" alt=\"Ecological Farming in Kenya. \u00a9 Peter Caton \/ Greenpeace\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/> Ecological corn at Lambwe division, Mbita district, Kenya.[\/caption][caption id=\"attachment_8869\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"300\"]<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-8869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2020\/01\/8e401247-gp0stp72o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ecological Farming in Kenya. \u00a9 Peter Caton \/ Greenpeace\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> Ecological corn at Lambwe division, Mbita district, Kenya.[\/caption]","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,102],"tags":[37,40,64],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirethemovement","category-issues","tag-food","tag-conservation","tag-kenya","p4-page-type-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}