Shocking:8 Million Ugandans Sleep Hungry

SOURCE: 256NEWS.COM, 19 OCTOBER 2011

About 8 million Ugandans go to bed hungry. This is due to increased food prices, Professor Barnabus Kiiza of Makerere University has said.
According to Kiiza, this situation is a big threat to the economy’s growth and development to eradicate poverty and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
He said most of the affected people are in urban areas where food is shopped in markets.
Kiiza advised government to focus on setting up Agro processing industries in order to employ the urban poor.
UN last week warned that food prices are likely to become more volatile in coming years, increasing the risk that more poor people in import-dependent countries will go hungry, the United Nations said in an annual report on food insecurity published on Monday.