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It’s no secret that traditional crops such as millets and pulses are highly nutritious. Now researchers, working with women in Ethiopia and India are making it easier for them to use these local crops when cooking healthy meals at home and creating new business ventures.
Food Aid as Industrial Policy
Cato Institute (blog)
In practice, after becoming a government program, the idea of giving food to poor people has been turned into an industrial policy tool.
UN News Centre UNICEF report on nutrition shows progress in combating childhood stunting UN News Centre 15 April 2013 – A United Nations nutrition report released today shows that progress has been made in recent years in addressing stunting in...
Rural Women Get Livestock to Improve Nutrition
AllAfrica.com
Dimitrie Nyirabayoboke, one of the beneficiaries, said the goats were expected to improve nutrition standards in communities.
Gearing up for the International Conference on Forests for Food Security and Nutrition Bioversity International scientist Barbara Vinceti speaks about the importance of forest foods in peoples' diets.
Via Luigi Guarino
Instead of buying food from American farmers and shipping it abroad, the government would buy food in developing countries and distribute it.
The average body mass index (BMI) values for adults around the globe compared.
Agro-ecology is the common sense approach to food security “There is no agricultural challenge that we can’t solve with an agro‐ecological approach.” “The industrial mindset is the underlying psychological state that drives the development of technologies...
Via Cathryn Wellner
The last time I browsed the cookbook section of a bookstore, the options were dizzying. The present day culinary record of our habits and inclinations is ...
When the junk food and alcohol industries seek to cosy up to health professionals and organisations, beware.
Via Cathryn Wellner
England may be facing a Passover without chicken soup. Nearly all of the chickens slaughtered in kosher plants in recent weeks were found to be unkosher. “In its statement, the Kashrus Committee of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations said that the 80% of slaughtered chickens had broken leg tendons, which makes them unfit for kosher consumption.”
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Hunger and undernutrition are amongst the most persistent global development challenges. Part of Millennium Development Goal 1 is to ‘Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger’ (UN, 2012).
Via Knapco
In this in-depth interview, the FCRN’s Marie Persson has invited 3 experts, Roger Leakey, André Gonçalves and Ben Phalan to discuss the role, benefits and challenges with agroforestry. They provide insights and critical recommendations based on experiences analysing and implementing such systems in Brazil, South East Asia and many African countries. Special attention is paid to agroforestry as a possible pathway towards closing the yield gap and creating sustainable intensification.
Via David Rowing
A. A. Gill writes of an international occupation with a very American export—steak—and the blood-thirst it has inspired.
The Hindu
Towards upping the ante in child nutrition
The Hindu
Following the Rs.
SCIENTISTS at the Food and Drug Administration systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These food products are bellwethers that tell us how bad the crisis of antibiotic resistance is getting. And they’re telling us it’s getting worse. But this is only part of the story. While the F.D.A. can see what kinds of antibiotic-resistant bacteria are coming out of livestock facilities, the agency doesn’t know enough about the antibiotics that are being fed to these animals. This is a major public health problem, because giving healthy livestock these drugs breeds superbugs that can infect people. We need to know more about the use of antibiotics in the production of our meat and poultry. The results could be a matter of life and death.
Via David Rowing
The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science Presents Academy's First Research ...
Food Safety News Two Major Farm Groups Take Opposite Tack on Raw Milk Food Safety News Mark McAfee, co-owner of Fresno-based Organic Pastures, the largest raw milk producer in the United States, told Food Safety News that there was no reference to...
A couple of simple cues could make people waste substantially less food in places such as hotels, schools, and hospitals, researchers say. Food waste doesn’t
Growth in national income is a poor predictor of welfare
The Economist
IF YOU look at countries' social and economic progress since 1990, you will find that, in most cases, it is in line with their historic performance—with some important exceptions.
The institution of breakfast is rarely challenged. It ranks somewhere between sleep and oxygen in reputed health benefit, and supposedly supplies ir...
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