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August 17, 2012
Breaking Africa’s cycle of hunger
About 18 million people in Africa across a band that stretches from Senegal to Chad are suffering from extreme shortage of food – resorting to having leaves and grains raided from ant-nests within the earth. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Surviving on a meal a day in Ghana
Ghana has been suffering from erratic rainfall and hence low food productivity in the past couple of years – this has led families to adopt “one-zero-one strategy” for their children, and “zero-zero-one strategy” for themselves. They are barely surviving due to lack of food, and rates […]
August 17, 2012
Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity: Directions and Solutions for Policy, Research and Action
According to the recently published book by the UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), while some one billion people suffer from varying degrees of hunger and food insecurity, yet more are obese. Read more here, and read the report here.
August 17, 2012
Teaching Madagascar’s mothers corrent nutritional methods for their children
As a part of the US$3.5 million National Community Nutrition Programme (PNNC), mothers are being trained to participate in correct nutritional practices regarding their children. Every Friday, mothers with their children gather at community centres to weigh-in their children, learn about healthy diets and correct […]
August 17, 2012
An ‘Olympic sized’ boost to child nutrition
The leaders of UK and Brazil have challeged their counterparts in the world to propose methods of imporving child nutrition at the Global Hunger Event held earlier this August in London. A new global target to reduce child malnutrition in the world by 70 million children (a […]
August 17, 2012
Moringa leaves saves lives in DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo has been benefitting by realising the benefits of locally available resources in fighting malnutrition among children. Earlier, ANAMED (Action Nature et Médecine) an NGO that rears a Moringa plantation would have to rely on donors to provide soy milk to help children […]
August 17, 2012
Will the next G8 really fix the problem of hunger and malnutrition
While pointing out that lack of food production is not the reason why people across the world suffer from hunger and consequent malnutrition, the author of this post cites an interesting example – that there is relatively low connection between agricultural enhancements and rates of malnutrition. […]
August 17, 2012
Malnutrition blamed for infant death of children in Cambodia
HFMDs (hand, foot and mouth diseases) have killed approximately 54 children since April this year. Experts are blaming the existence of extreme malnutrition amongst children that made them vulnerable to the diseases. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Making super cereal for malnourished children in Mali
In response to the Malian malnutrition crisis amongst the children (one in five children in Mali are malnourished), a French association by the name of Misola has engaged women to prepare ‘Misola’, a flour which is 60 per cent millet, 20 per cent soya, 10 per cent […]
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