{"id":5538,"date":"2017-03-27T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2017-03-27T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:28:21","slug":"east-africa-food-crisis-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/east-africa-food-crisis-response\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Food Crisis – Response"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are distributing seed for a number of nutrient rich crops to more than 4,500 households<\/strong> in Kenya, while thousands more in Ethiopia are receiving seed NOW \u2013 so that they are ready to plant when the seasonal rains arrive in a few weeks times.<\/p>\n With your help <\/a>we will do much more.<\/p>\n East Africa is currently facing its worst food crisis in generations, with approximately 20 million people in urgent need of help<\/strong> in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Somalia.<\/p>\n Although our current intervention does not address the immediate priority \u2013 which sees the United Nations and other agencies providing emergency food supplies to affected communities \u2013it is vital that rural poor families receive planting materials, so that in 3-4 months time their fields will be producing the food they will need for the rest of this year<\/strong>, and into the future.<\/p>\n<\/div> Green gram and pigeon pea seed being provided will give thousands of households in the drought affected Kilifi district a 10 months supply of highly nutritious food <\/p><\/div><\/li> Drought tolerant cereal seed, fertilizer, farm tools and draught animals are being provided in Amhara and Oromia regions, so that families are equipped and ready to plant when the seasonal (Meher) rains arrive, in a little over a month\u2019s time<\/p><\/div><\/li> Thousands of households are being helped to combat a devastating invasion by Fall Armyworm which is destroying maize and other cereal crops across the region.<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul> Your support is needed in combatting the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis.<\/p><\/div> *Reports\u00a0from Ethiopia show that households provided with drought tolerant seed varieties by Self Help Africa had harvested\u00a050% of their normal food crop, as compared to an almost complete crop failure experienced by others in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self Help Africa is responding in a practical and targeted way to the worst food crisis to hit East Africa in decades.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,652,700,681,677,637],"tags":[163,785,778,115,783,501,70,224,782,784,67,780,211,779,259],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-nutrition","category-ethiopia","category-featured","category-kenya","category-malawi","category-news","tag-africa","tag-appeal","tag-armyworm","tag-east-africa","tag-emergency","tag-famine","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-food-crisis","tag-humanitarian","tag-hunger","tag-invasion","tag-malawi","tag-pest","tag-poverty"],"yoast_head":"\nIN KENYA<\/h4>
IN ETHIOPIA<\/h4>
IN MALAWI<\/h4>
Fighting Food Crisis<\/h2>