(MENAFN) On Friday, Jan. 15, the release of environmentally favorable agricultural innovations custom-made for urban slums has been unveiled by a consortium of Kenyan researchers to enhance food and nutrition security.
Conducting green farming innovations in the informal settlements will facilitate eliminating hunger and malnutrition that worsened amidst the coronavirus crisis, stated Elizabeth Murage, senior research scientist at Nairobi-based African Population & Health Research Centre (APHRC).
Murage noted in an interview in Nairobi: "we have been engaging communities in Kenya's informal settlement to promote innovative urban farming which is key to achieve food and nutrition security."
She added that researchers allied with APHRC have been offering training and skills transmission to communities in Nairobi's informal settlements to help them carry out green farming ventures.
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