Food crisis? Bring it on.
FILE: Chris Jackson/Getty Images At a Commonwealth heads of state meeting in London this week, Uganda’s President Yowari Museveni declared that he is “happy” about the world food crisis: Why? Because we produce a lot of food… we are stuck with food.” The country’s rice production has risen dramatically in the past few years, due ...
FILE: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
At a Commonwealth heads of state meeting in London this week, Uganda’s President Yowari Museveni declared that he is “happy” about the world food crisis:
Why? Because we produce a lot of food… we are stuck with food.”
The country’s rice production has risen dramatically in the past few years, due in part to the government’s imposition of heavy duties on imported rice. Uganda also just sealed a deal with an Indian processor plant, which now imports the African country’s excess milk supply.
But Museveni has plenty of international trade and subsidy battles to fight if he hopes to turn the global food crisis to Uganda’s advantage. He even admitted that 40 percent of bananas produced in the country go bad. Meanwhile, millions of people in Africa and across the world continue to starve.
And apparently the Ugandan president also missed the memo about the ongoing famine in his country’s Karamoja region, which has been devastated by years of conflict.
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