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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 […]
January 7, 2013
State of the Food Insecurity in the World 2012
This report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization records the levels of undernourishment across the world based on a new and improved testing methodology. This survey shows that efforts to reduce chronic hunger in the last 20 years have been successful, yet the number of people suffering from chronic […]
January 7, 2013
Barefoot and Kiva join forces
Barefoot Power, the award winning social enterprise and Kiva, the online microcredit platform have now joined forces to make clean energy options more easily available throughout underserved communities in the developing world. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Understanding the benefits of biogas
Means of small biogas digesters which have been instrumental in providing power in a number of Asian countries can be leveraged to provide power to a number of underserved households in South Africa as well. Read more here.
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