That damp, unassuming sponge sitting by your sink might be the most dangerous item in your kitchen. Picture this: you have just enjoyed a delicious meal. You wash the utensils with your trusted sponge, rinse, and stack them on the drying rack. Job done, right? Wrong. That sponge, warm, moist, and teeming with food particles, […]
On this Day of the African Child, we remember the brave students of Soweto who demanded a better education. But what good is a classroom if a child is too hungry to learn? Today, 307 million Africans, one in every five, go to bed hungry. But let’s make this personal. Imagine a classroom of 30 […]
Dr. Andrew Kigundu, a towering figure in Uganda’s Agricultural Biotechnology landscape, left us last week. He passed away on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at such an early age. As the Food Rights Alliance, we have walked the long road of Agrifood systems transformation alongside NARO for over a decade, and we are still counting. We […]
Today, Food Rights Alliance joined fellow civil society organizations SEATINI, Food Safety Coalition Uganda, Global Consumer Centre, Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda, CEFROHT, PELUM Association, and GEDA-Uganda for a joint Civil Society press conference held in Kampala. The engagement was convened under the theme: “Safeguarding Health, Environment, and Market Access through Safe Agrochemical […]
