Civil society leaders meeting in Uganda have partnered with vendors and market leaders to promote organically grown foods in order to promote good health and save the environment.
The leaders said this at the weekend during the end of of a 3 day training for market leaders drawn from Uganda, Rwanda and Zimbabwe under the PELUM (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management) Association – Uganda in conjunction with Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFOSA).
The leaders said they had decided to work with the market vendors because they see this to be an important connection in the chain to promote good health and a green environment.
The training held at Lake Victoria Hotel – Entebbe attracted over 40 participants and was concluded with a market visit to Kitooro – Entebbe Market, where some of the participants sensitized vendors and the general public about the dangers of eating chemical-infested foods and the problems associated with using chemicals in food growing.
Hadija Nalule, from PELUM (U) said eating chemically infested foods was a recipe for avoidable disease and said the complacence of the current generation was suffering from diet-related diseases.
