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The food crisis and its impact on poor women in Africa/La crise alimentaire et son impact sur les femmes pauvres en Afrique.

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Rosette is a mother of 3 children though she is responsible for 8 children. The other 5 children belong to her late sister and brother who passed away due to the HIV/AIDS scourge. The five children were staying with Rosette's mother in Mukono District, in Uganda until last year when the mother suddenly died as a result of shock and heart attack.

The mother faced death when she was caught up in a stampede during the visit of Prince Charles of England and his wife to the area when Uganda hosted the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of States Summit in November.

Rosette's life has never been the same since then. She was forced to rent out the small piece of land (Kibanja) that belonged to her late mother to a neighbour and travelled to Kampala with all the eight children. She realized that though she inherited this small piece of land it could not sustain her and the children.

She moved to the city to took for opportunities for better income and education for the children. She struggles every single day to put food on the table for the children. With the global food crisis and the rising food and fuel prices, Rosette woes are not anywhere in...

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