Psst! Blah blah blah u are arguing against, and denying those disturbing statistics about the prevalence of, and the very depressing effects of food shortage in Tanzania by consoling yourselves about the food situation in Kenya and the fact that we buy your maize.
Cmon! You better smell the coffee brah. Your country, unlike Kenya isnt very forthcoming with the reality of the food situation there.
Wfp, Fao, USAid, Undp and all the other reputable sources cannot all be conjuring up false stories about the extent of the problem in Tanzania. They are the same same bodies that give the very reports about about Kenya that u guys always rub on our faces.
Now get these....
a) Tanzania is grappling with worse case of malnitrition (the type involving shortage of food or nutritious food) than Kenya.
b) whilst Kenya suffers the type of malnutrition involving the excessive consumption of food high in fats and carbs making Kenya the most obese society in the region and the third in Africa.
12 African Nations With The Most Obese People
Btw........check out the third table in this report to understand why Kenya just has to import so much maize
Global maize production, utilization, and consumption
The first thing to consider when we talk abt food production is "PRODUCTION AT NATIONAL LEVEL".Go reread those reports from the organisations you said! The headlines show that Tanzania produces sufficient food at national level contrary to Kenya where there is no sufficient production at national level! This is why we don't import food, whilst you do.
However, No country can be uniform, especially to the least and developing countries! Like it is in Kenya, some parts of our country are semi arid hence limited food production. But people from these area get their food from the nearby regions unlike in Kenya where in a situation like this, food ought to be imported!
Take a look at the above attachment! Despite the fact that the areas marked in red produces insufficient food, yet they are supplemented from the green marked regions!
Now why is tz sometimes described as food insecure? Let's go back & see what food security means!
Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, is the condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
Since the semiarid areas expect food from other parts, be it they buy themselves or the government intervenes, the concept of food security is already altered!
However this is where the difference btn kenya and tz comes! When tz government intervenes by supplying food from high producing area to other parts, the Kenyan gvt has to import it from any nation, preferably tz! There4, kenyans suffer more than tz do!
Bro, I can assure you, it is so difficult to completely put a country at 100% food secure, even to the developed countries! Take an example of the USA, it's the major global food producer, but as we speak, 12.7% of the households and 1person in every 6 suffer from food insecurity! See here!
11 Facts About Hunger in the US | DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change
United States Hunger Facts, Poverty Facts 2016 - World Hunger News
Coming to the issue of Poor nutrition, it's an issue our country as an LDC needs to address and take appropriate actions! Oul local are still poor, despite that they hav sufficient food but they lack proper education on how to feed the infants and youths! This is a global issue anyway, even the developed countries face the same thing!
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