Tanzania:Women want return to local food


  1. Deo Simba, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    Recent years have seen Africa turning to foreign originated foodstuffs. Not many are happy with this turn of events. Senior women are among those who want Africa to go back to consuming foodstuffs that originate from within Africa.
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    Regent Estate Senior Women Group (RESEWO) is dedicated to promoting indigenous underutilised foods and vegetables with a vision to improvement of food security at household level thus alleviating malnutrition and poverty.

    Among foods and vegetables they promote include: blackjack, hare letture, nightshades, malabar spinach, sweet potatoes leaves, pumpkin, spiderplant, roselle, yams, moringa, aloe vera, lemon grass and amaranthus. Among their activities include conducting counselling on healthy eating especially to those affected by HIV and AIDS; and research, education and training to ensure wide dissemination of traditional nutritional vegetables to target groups and the general public.

    RESEWO is a non-partisan, non-sectarian and not for profit non-governmental organisation operating in Tanzania.