After 100 days of Jubilee Government Kenya's poor face food insecurity

After 100 days of Jubilee Government Kenya s poor face food insecurity http://vimeo.com/83680664 About this video "24 Jul 2013 | by Martha Nyambura | Civil Society - Original Feature To meet its financial deficit the Kenyan government is proposing to tax basic commodities such as bread and maize flour. As a consequence, many of Kenya’s poor risk being food insecure. The current government took over last April. For ordinary Kenyans the new governments’ three month stay in office has done little to improve their living conditions."

The Nuru experience in Kenya, from garbage dump to model farm

The Nuru experience in Kenya, from garbage dump to model farm http://vimeo.com/83680662 About this video "18 Jun 2013 | by Martha Nyambura | Civil Society - Media Talks - Original Feature Contribution by IPS and IPSTV journalist Martha Nyambura to the IPSTV Food and Media Talks panel “Will forthcoming economic boom change Africa’s rural backyard?” held at FAO, Rome, on Tuesday June 18th 2013. The clip contains Martha Nyambura’s video report “The Nuru experience, from garbage dump to model farm” and her following contribiution from Nairobi (Kenya) via Skype."

East African researchers collaborate to fight maize disease

May 7, 2013 | Filed under: Food & Agric,Lead Stories,Regional | Posted by: Administrator

By Martha Wairimu Nyambura

Nairobi, Kenya – Sixty four – year- old Wambui Muhiu, meticulously moves the jembe (hoe) back and forth hitting hard against the black cotton soil in her small acre of land in rural Kenya,Muranga County. Her efforts reveal a cluster of worms to which the chickens watching nearby greedily devour. 

The long rains of March-May have started albeit in torrents. Besides her is a two kilogramme bag full of maize seeds for planting.

Continnue reading http://www.africasti.com/lead-stories/east-african-researchers-collaborate-to-fight-maize-disease

Report names countries with ‘alarming’ hunger

October 23, 2011 | Filed under: Food & Agric,Lead Stories | Posted by: AfricaSTI

Wairimu Nyambura, Nairobi

A new index reviewing the global hunger situation in 122 developing countries has revealed that most of the countries with alarming hunger are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The newly released Global Hunger Index states that the http://www.africasti.com/lead-stories/report-names-african-countries-with-alarming-hunger