President Museveni to Preside Over 2020 World Food Day Activities

October 5, 2020

Entebbe, 5th October 2020. His Excellency President Yoweri Museveni is expected to preside over the 2020 World Food Day Activities, tomorrow the 16th of October 2020.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries will be joining partners, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and Civil Society Organisations including the Foods Rights Alliance for this year’s activities.

Resources

The theme: “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our Actions are Our Future.”

How to follow all updates online: The official Twitter hashtag for the Day is #WorldFoodDay2020.

Communications Resources from the UNFAO: http://www.fao.org/world-food-day/home/en

Notes for editors

What is World Food Day and Why is it Important?

The United Nation Organisation’s Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) was established on 16th October in 1945. The day is celebrated every year as World Food Day with a customised themes with the overall objective of creating awareness about the existing problems of obesity and malnutrition due to hunger.

About the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries is a Ministry in the Government of Uganda charged with creating an enabling environment in the Agricultural Sector.

The Ministry formulates, reviews and implement national policies, plans, strategies, regulations and standards and enforce laws, regulations and standards along the value chain of crops, livestock and fisheries.

Vision: A competitive, profitable and sustainable agricultural sector.

Mission: To transform subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

Strategic Objectives

  • To initiate the formulation and review of the policy and legal framework for the sector
  • To establish and implement systems for service provision in the sector
  • To strengthen and implement strategies, regulatory framework, standards, institutional structures and infrastructure for quality assurance and increased quantities of agricultural products to access and sustain local, regional and export markets
  • To design and implement sustainable capacity building programmes for stakeholders in the agricultural sector through training, re-tooling, infrastructure, provision of logistics and ICT
  • To develop strategies for sustainable food security
  • To develop appropriate agricultural technologies for improved agricultural production, productivity and value addition through research
  • To develop effective collaborative mechanisms with affiliated institutions and
  • To take lead and establish a system and institutional framework for agricultural data collection, analyses, storage and dissemination to stakeholders including Uganda Bureau of Statistics.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) is made up of four Directorates including the Directorate of Crop Resources, Directorate of Animal Resources, Directorate of Agricultural Extension Services and the Directorate of Fisheries Resources each with Departments, Divisions and Partnership Projects.

The Departments of the Ministry which do not fall directly in the above include the Department of Agricultural Planning and Development, the Human Resource Department, the Department of Finance and Administration and the Department of Agricultural Infrastructure, Mechanisation and Water for Agricultural Production.

The Ministry is also made up of seven Agencies including the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), Cotton Development Organisation (CDO), Dairy Development Authority (DDA), Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) and Coordinating Office for the Control of Trypanosomiasis in Uganda (COCTU) and the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Databank (NAGRC&DB).