Overview While Africa has potential to grow diversity of food, the continent suffers high levels of under-nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, food poisoning and has in recent decades also registered marked rise in prevalence of over-nutrition and associated non-communicable diseases. Over 20% of Africa’s population face chronic hunger and approximately 30% of children below five years on […]
In Uganda, low-income groups and individuals cannot afford larger and popular types of fish, such as Nile Perch and Tilapia – meaning they miss out on a crucial source of nutrients. The solution? Embracing an overlooked variety that’s little in size but packs a big punch: silver fish, or ‘Mukene’. This small, finger-sized fish species […]
It is a bright morning at Kyaliwajjala market on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. Dorothy Nakimbugwe, co-principal investigator of the ‘NutriFish’ project, is introducing food kiosk vendors to a new sauce made from a small pelagic fish called ‘Mukene’, or silver fish. Uganda has three main small pelagic fish species: Ratrineobola argentea (Mukene), […]