Perseverence Ganga shares his top 5 recommendations for World Food Day
The 2021 World Food Day is all about celebrating food heroes under the theme: “Our actions are our future -Better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life.” To commemorate, we asked Perseverence Ganga, a food security specialist working with the World Food Programme to share his top 5 recommendations.
Perseverence Ganga is a serial social entrepreneur and a humanitarian affairs specialist with experience in emergency programme operations and management. He carries more than 20 years of experience in humanitarian emergency, food security and livelihoods programming with the United Nations. Throughout the years, he has been responsible for responding to a wide range of issues such as large scale food security, livelihoods and early recovery interventions, rural resilience, disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
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Hunger: An Unnatural History
By Prof. Sharman Apt Russell
The best way to understand food security is understanding the politics of the stomach. Hunger causes wars, wrecks homes and can be weaponized. In this book, Prof Sharman describes the medical side of starvation.
Overcoming Agriculture and Food Crises in Ethiopia: Institutional Evolution and the Path to Agricultural Transformation
By Getachew Diriba
This book tells a compelling story of how Ethiopia rose from being the face of famine and poverty in the 1984 Drought to become the first African country to lift more than 60 million people out of extreme poverty in less than 2 Decades through consistent policies and home grown solutions.
Agronomy Manual Book
By SEEDCO
This is a step by step crop by crop manual for Zimbabwean farmers created by SeedCo Zimbabwe. This book has been a game changer and a bible for young farmers entering into farming in Zimbabwe. The bumper harvest in 2021 season was because of this manual.
Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It
By Sharman Apt Russell
I had the honour of being one of the first people to be contacted directly by Professor Sharman to review this gem of a book.
It simplifies nutrition language, one of our 2030 SDGs targets in a captivating story that can tell even the laymen what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong. There is no talk about food security with no nutrition security and the goal is within reach and not as complicated as we are made to believe.
Emergency Food Security Assessment Handbook
By World Food Programme
This book has helped many poor countries to set robust food security monitoring systems taping from years of WFP experience across the world.