Explaining Uganda’s deteriorating food consumption
End-of-year
reports have confirmed that 2008 was one of the worst years in the last quarter
century. Traffic accidents, alcohol consumption, human sacrifice, violence and
crime, political and economic corruption, environmental degradation and oil
crisis – all went up. The food situation – the focus of the article – exhibited
the same upward trend. We explain the main cause of hunger in a country known
for food self-sufficiency.
Commentators
continue to give the impression that
At the World Food Summit in
President Museveni reported that “
sufficient. We not only produce enough food for ourselves, we also have plenty
for export.