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Category Archives: diversity
Timor Leste: No Joy in the Brilliance of Sunshine
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, development, diversity, stunting
Tagged dietary diversity, seeds of life, timor leste
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The Holy Grail of Nutrition, at least this month
One of the holy grails in nutrition is to better understand how agriculture and our food system can improve nutrition and health. Well, it is the current flavor of the month. Often called “nutrition sensitive programming or approaches,” most are … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, development, diversity, food systems, malnutrition, nutrition, undernutrition
Tagged agricultural interventions, Alive and Thrive, biodiversity, biofortification, bioversity, Dangour, development practitioners, FAO, Haddad, HarvestPlus, IDS, IFPRI, LSHTM, nutritional impact, plos, PNAS, scaling up nutrition, sustainable diets
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New nutrition and agrobiodiversity manual: Implementing food systems field projects
Just published from Bioversity. Check it out! Bioversity Agrobiodiversity and Nutrition Field Manual
Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, diversity, food systems, nutrition
Tagged agrobiodiversity, bioversity, field manual, nutrition
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Bioversity’s Nutrition Strategy – Resilient Food and Nutrition Systems: Analyzing the Role of Agricultural Biodiversity in Enhancing Human Nutrition and Health
This past year I worked diligently with colleagues at Bioversity International, on the 10 year nutrition strategy. Below is a summary of the strategy along with the link to the entire strategy. Bioversity’s Nutrition Strategy One of the world’s greatest challenges … Continue reading
women in dogon pounding millet
Building on my post of women working millets in India, the Dogon women know how to do it up.
Posted in african foods, agriculture, diversity
Tagged dogon, millets, singing, women
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Oxfam digs deep into the global food system
Oxfam has just launched a new campaign called “GROW“. The report is quite good and calls for some major changes in how our ‘broken’ global food system could be repaired. They propose some solutions and criticisms about land grabbing, GMOs, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, animals, biodiversity, diversity, environment, food systems
Tagged agriculture, beef, food security, global food system, GMOs, grow, nutrition, oxfam, smallholder
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Dietary diversity plays an important role in child undernutrition and food security in Bangladesh
In the last six or seven years, there have been some excellent scientific publications by Arimond and Ruel, Kennedy and colleagues, and Sawadogo demonstrating that dietary diversity is correlated with growth, micronutrient intake in children under five years of age … Continue reading
Posted in diversity, economic crisis, nutrition
Tagged Bangladesh, child growth, diet diversity, food security, household food expenditures, stunting
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FAO’s Crop Calendar
I just came across FAO’s Crop Calendar. It is tre cool. You may be asking what it exactly is. It is an incredible tool that I wish I would have had when I worked in the Millennium Villages to help … Continue reading
Posted in african foods, agriculture, biodiversity, diversity, home garden
Tagged africa, agroecological zone, crop, crop calendar, FAO, garden
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Bringing food back into fashion
The more I work in the nutrition field, the more I realize how critical FOOD has become. And yet, it is essentially ignored by most nutritionist and health practioners. Well not food exactly, but the quality of food. In development … Continue reading
Posted in diversity, food systems, health, mediterranean, nutrition
Tagged dietary guidelines, jama, mediterranean, pollan, reductionism, waage, whole foods
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