A head of the World Food day, Food rights activists are set to launch a series of activities seeking serious interventions to ensure accessibility of agricultural extension services for all farmers in the country in order to combat hunger and malnutrition.

This comes at a time when about 900 million people across the global are undernourished, while the hunger and malnutrition situation in Uganda is worrying. Activists expressed their disappointment that government is concentrating on new technologies in the agricultural sector and neglect the human resource that directly produces the food.

Now this week, the Food Rights Alliance a non- governmental organization with over 100 members is set to engage lawmakers, farmers and government officials from the line ministries on how to improve accessibility of agricultural extension services as a measure of increasing food productivity and cultivation of nutritious foods for the population.

Agnes Kirabo is the coordinator of the Food Rights Alliance. She explains the campaign is to stress the importance of efforts of assisting farmers instead of promoting technologies of genetically modified foods.