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The issue of PHL – Post Harvest Loss

While the global leaders may have correctly recognized the most pressing food insecurity related issue as the low production of food, another factor recognizable is something called PHL, or post-harvest loss. This is the loss of food produced, made between the farm and the gate leading outside. Extent of these […]

January 7, 2013

Global Institute for Food Security launched

A new institute called the Global Institute for Food Security has been launched at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. This is a timely project given that the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050. To feed this population, the world’s farmers must escalate their output by 70 per […]

January 7, 2013

VLCC partners with WFP for “Global Balance Programme”

In a move to attempt to balance the most critical nutrition related issues in the world, VLCC, the slimming, beauty and preventive healthcare brand is partnering with UN World Food Programme to launch “Global Balance Programme”. Under this programme, for every member losing weight in VLCC’s UAE centres, the company […]

January 7, 2013

East Africa: Firm, university partner to encourage Vitamin A rich potatoes

The International Potato Centre (CIP) has partnered with Sokoine University in Dar es Salaam to encourage people to purchase orange skinned sweet potatoes which are rich in Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency is prevalent in the developing world, and renders a number of children blind every year. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Food companies play ambivalent part against flab in the developing world

Perhaps it is worth noting that sales of fizzy drinks have more than quadrupled in India, Brazil, China and Russia. Fizzy drinks contributed 20 per cent to obesity in America between 1997 and 2007. While most food companies are trying to make more nutrition and less fattening food, despite potentially […]

January 7, 2013

Child malnutrition in India

This post provides a comprehensive infographic which compares the child nutrition level improvements in India with that of other developing countries. It shows that there have been improvements, but the rate has fallen slower than in other developing countries. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Nutrition survey for Democratic Republic of Korea released

There have been ‘modest but significant’ improvements in the childhood nutrition in the Democratic Republic of Korea, according to UNICEF’s representative for the country. The nutritional survey shows that while childhood nutrition status is improving, women’s anaemia remains a problem. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Jamaica: Improving nutrition for a brighter future

Approximately one in four children in the country is poor. Recognizing poverty as one of the main drivers for poor food intake and hence poor nutrition, the enforcement of the Malnourished Children’s Programme has been suggested. Read more here.

January 7, 2013

Going beyond food aid – the challenge of improving nutrition

While 2012 was recognized as the year for UN’s Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), given increased focus on the quality, not quantity of food for the poor in the developing world, there were still 870 million people, 850 million of which were in the developing world, who were chronically undernourished. Increasing […]