Author: FREDA OROCHI LAURA

The Pouch, The Powder, and The Poison: Is Uganda’s Baby Food Safe Enough?

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Carol’s hands are calloused from a long day at the workplace, but her heart is soft for her 10-month-old baby Tendo. She reaches for a bright yellow packet of “Baby Powder Meal,” a fish-millet blend promising “complete nutrition.” It is affordable, the vendor recommended it, and her peers in a young mother’s WhatsApp group swore […]

CSOs Call for Dialogue on Uganda’s Agrochemical Restrictions

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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 […]