Nutrition security

  1. How to end hunger: lessons from the father of India’s green revolution
    The co-patron of the Gender in Agriculture Partnership, Prof. M.S. Swaminathan shares some lessons he has learned over his long and successful career on scientists’ role in feeding the world.   The research of MS Swaminathan led to India reaching agricultural self-sufficiency in the 1970s. He…
  2. Yes! We Can Change the Food System
    Young people and their innovative ideas have the power to change the food system. The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Young Earth Solutions! (YES!) program was established in 2012 to encourage young people—specifically, students under the age of 35—to develop innovative…
  3. Africa’s first Water Fund to tackle rising threats to food security, water and energy supplies
    Every rainy season Jane Kabugi’s home comes under attack. The torrential rain so desperately needed downstream to fuel Kenya’s rising electricity demands – and Nairobi’s water requirements – has literally been tearing her home and farm apart.   “There was a time when this house of mine…
  4. The intersection between agriculture and nutrition: the Agriculture-Nutrition Community of Practice
    Over the past three years GFAR has been advocating for better nutrition and sustainable agriculture. This included sponsorship of a specific workshop co-hosted with the EAT Stockholm Food Forum following on from the Rome ICN2 in 2014, which examined the metrics require to integrate nutrition…
  5. Discovery of beans that can beat the heat could save “meat of the poor” from global warming
    Source: CGIAR   As a result of a major breakthrough, beans – once feared to be a casualty of climate change – are now set to withstand extreme temperatures, protecting a staple food of the poor in developing countries.   Amidst fears that global warming could zap a…
  6. GCHERA Conference 2015 – Call for abstracts
    The GCHERA 8th World Conference “Universities’ Global Challenge: nutritional security and environmental sustainability for human health” will be held from 25 to 26 June 2015.  The conference will be held at Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon…
  7. Advances in nutrition: myth or reality?
    Since 2005-06, the date of the last nationwide government survey of nutrition, the story has been one of a curse, a national shame and a disconnect. This is because despite rapid economic growth in the past 15 years, nutrition indicators for children under five have barely moved.   Can we now…
  8. 8 Reasons Why Nutritious Food helps break the Cycle of Extreme Poverty
    That uncomfortable feeling when you’re so hungry you lose all control of your emotions. So convinced the world is conspiring against you, you lash out at whoever dares to cross your path. And so depleted of energy, you can no longer perform basic functions like rational decision making. Yeah,…
  9. Asian Maize Conference Develops Strategies for Sustainable Intensification of Maize in Asia
    Source: CIMMYT   More than 350 leading agricultural researchers, policy-makers, farmers and service providers from across the public and private sectors gathered in Bangkok from 30th October - 1st November for the 12th Asian Maize Conference. Organized by the Asia-Pacific Association…
  10. FAO sends message on the global need for agroecology
    Written by: Gina Castillo, Agriculture Program Manager at Oxfam America   UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Secretary General, Jose Graziano da Silva, reminded the audience during his closing remarks at the FAO’s Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition last week…
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