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August 6, 2012
UN Agricultural Agency Proclaims 2013 as Year of the Quinoa
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2013 to be the Year of the Quinoa in their annual UN observance calendar.The Year-2013 observance resolution calls on governments, as well as regional and international organizations, to support the initiative. It aims to “focus world attention on the role that […]
August 6, 2012
Establishment of food security; a solution to undernourishment
This post gives an overview of the causes of global poverty and malnutrition and an assessment of the performance of FAO (the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation) as the world’s leading organisation in combating poverty and undernourishment and improving the living conditions of people around […]
August 6, 2012
Fighting malnutrition through local resources
In most developing countries in Africa, especially in rural scenarios, mothers are unable to provide basic food, let alone nutritious food for their children owing to poor economic conditions as well as low awareness levels regarding how to source nutritional food locally. However once given the […]
August 6, 2012
Fiji: Anaemia troubles
Anaemia is a major public health problem in Fiji with an estimated 400,000 people suffering from it.The National Nutrition Survey in 2004 found that one in every two children less than two years old and one in every three women suffer from anaemia. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
4 Olympic athletes who stepped up for child nutrition
Few people grasp the importance of good nutrition as well as Olympic Athletes. No matter how talented, they cannot give their best without it. Here are four renowned Olympic athletes talking about nutrition a being just as important to children, especially those who risk not getting […]
August 6, 2012
Bangladesh, and the rising nutritional awareness
Nutrition levels in Bangladesh have been on the rise in recent years, experts say, with the trend fuelled by declining poverty, better awareness, and public education campaigns by the government as well as non-governmental organisations. Read more here.
August 6, 2012
Nigeria: Nutrition lacks government budget
In an address marking World Breastfeeding Week, Health Minister OnyebuchiChukwu responded to the persistent but underestimated threat of malnutrition in the country’s people by asking policy makers in federal, state and council governments to open a budget line for nutrition as part of their capital expenditures. […]
August 6, 2012
Trees that help combat malnutrition in Burkina Faso
This video report is a must-see on the basis of the fact that it provides meat to the notion of sourcing food locally to combat malnutrition in developing countries. It demonstrated the value of trees, often those that are drought resistant, in nourishing children of Africa, […]
August 6, 2012
Yemen unveils plan to vaccinate all children against rotavirus
Yemen has announced plans to vaccinate the 1 million children born in the country each year against the most severe form of diarrhoea, rotavirus. Rotavirus is often fatal for under-fives. The vaccination campaign is supported by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (Gavi). Read more here.
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