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Smallholder farmers in the developing world face multiple constraints that they must overcome to sustainably increase their productivity, enhance their income, connect with markets and become more resilient. These constraints often involve limited access to advisory services, natural resources and agricultural inputs – including seeds, fertilisers and agro-chemicals – as well as rural finance and markets.

The absence of basic rural infrastructure, especially roads, is another limiting factor. Roads link smallholders in remote areas to supplies and markets. They are central to reducing the transaction costs of input delivery, and to facilitating rural financial systems’ outreach to remote areas.

“It’s a great direction because the agriculture sector has great opportunity for jobs, so I’m simply grateful that the pageant took that direction and I would really love to see it promoted in our country because it is the backbone,” Leah Kalanguka

An article by Gemma Ahaibwe and Swaibu Mbowa on “the Youth Unemployment Challenge in Uganda and the Role of Employment Policies in Jobs Creation” is an eye opener to the realities of the Ugandan population with three-quarters below the age of 30 years. 64 percent of the population are unemployed youth (national definition, 18-30 years) among the total unemployed persons yet Agriculture remains an important sector in Africa with 77% of Uganda population dependent on it.

Planning of national or regional efforts to document and improve health and nutrition in the general population; a snapshot of the Nordic cooperation in the field of nutrition - from strategy and monitoring, to nutritional research and consumer labeling.

Are you interested in nutrition and public health? Do you work with the issues of sustainable diet and obesity? 

Rwanda’s top musicians are promoting better nutrition and health through a catchy new music video http://bit.ly/EatHealthyBeans.

The song extols the nutritional benefits of new high-iron beans that are now available in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. Almost 40 percent of children in Rwanda do not get enough iron in their diets. In severe cases, this can lower their IQs and learning capacity, resistance to disease, and energy levels.  Beans are a traditional staple food and eaten every day. These new iron beans contain 15 percent more iron than ordinary beans, and can provide women and children with almost half their daily iron needs. They also yield twice the harvest of ordinary beans, increasing incomes for farmers.