{"id":4696,"date":"2019-12-27T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2022-11-06T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T14:01:20","slug":"eac-food-security-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/eac-food-security-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC FOOD SECURITY ACTION PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EAC region is frequently affected by food shortages and pockets of hunger although the region as a whole has a huge potential and capacity to produce enough food for regional consumption and a large surplus for export to the world market. There are many factors leading to this state of affairs but the most critical are: (i) inadequate food exchange\/trade between times and\/or places of abundant harvest on one hand, and those with deficit on the other; and (ii) high variability in production caused by high variability of weather which is becoming worse due to climate change&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EAC-FOOD-SECURITY-ACTION-PLAN1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4663\" src=\"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/a>&#8230;Download PDF<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EAC region is frequently affected by food shortages and pockets of hunger although the region as a whole has a huge potential and capacity to produce enough food for regional consumption and a large surplus for export to the world market. There are many factors leading to this state of affairs but the most&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/eac-food-security-action-plan\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Transformation-scorecard-9.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}