WHO backs farmers to grow food instead of tobacco ...Middle East

GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Friday it was helping a growing number of farmers turn away from tobacco to help strengthen food security, particularly in Africa.Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on Wednesday, the WHO said it had teamed up with other United Nations agencies to support farmers wishing to convert from growing tobacco to growing food.The scheme's pilot in Kenya has proved successful and now the UN wants to export it to other countries and continents.“A record of 349 million people face acute food insecurity and that is up from 135 million in 2019,“ Ruediger Krech, the WHO’s director for health promotion, told reporters in Geneva.“Then we have 124 countries which grow tob

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