UGANDA
Dubbed the bread basket of East Africa, Uganda produces more food than it consumes. Yet, poverty still limits people’s access to nutritious food, especially in the north and east of the country.
While the poverty rate declined from 31 percent (2005/2006) to 19.7 percent (2012/2013), impetuous population growth has meant that the absolute number of poor people has not decreased.
On average, Ugandans consume 400 kilocalories less than they need every day. One in three school children have no food to eat during the school day.
Inadequate diets are at the roots of persisting nutritional problems which undermine the health, growth and development of Ugandan children. http://www1.wfp.org/countries/uganda
Unchecked, population increase will further strain the availability of arable land and natural resources and overwhelm the country’s limited means for providing food, employment, education, health care, housing, and basic services. The country’s north and northeast lag even further behind developmentally than the rest of the country as a result of long-term conflict (the Ugandan Bush War 1981-1986 and more than 20 years of fighting between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and Ugandan Government forces), ongoing inter-communal violence, and periodic natural disasters. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html