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Category Archives: malnutrition
Business case for Sustainable Diets
This is a repost from the Guardian’s Sustainable Business Blog. See original post here. Making the business case for sustainable food Scrutinising the issues around diet, disease and poverty will allow us to make informed choices about how to tackle … Continue reading
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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Forget “From Farm to Fork”! What about “From Farm to Flush”? Visuals not included.
The overly used motto, “from farm to fork” often refers to the idea of thinking more holistically about where our food comes from, how it is processed and how we cook and consume it. Or put more simply, what is … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, eating, environment, food systems, malnutrition, nutrition, u.s. food system, undernutrition
Tagged digestion, farm to fork, flush, food chain, nutrition, value chain
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Discussion on global food systems: tackling malnutrition in low-income settings
I recently participated in a discussion at Columbia University this past March of 2011 with some of my great friends and colleagues, Glenn Denning, CJ Jones and Roseline Remans. The discussion was about the global food price crisis, the nutrition … Continue reading
The Role of Food and Nutrition System Approaches in Tackling Hidden Hunger
Just published a new article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Below is the abstract and it is downloadable, free of charge. Holla to open access! One of the World’s greatest challenges is to secure sufficient … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food systems, hunger, malnutrition
Tagged food and nutrition systems, hidden hunger
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With the World Committee on Food Security meeting this week at FAO…
I thought I would throw in some definitions. It gets super confusing and many think that food security means military protecting national food stores, or food safety. FAO has some decent definitions here too. What does it mean to be … Continue reading
Posted in hunger, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, nutrition transition, obesity
Tagged acute hunger, CFS, FAO, food insecurity, hunger, nutrition transition
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After the MDG Summit: The Sustenance in Achieving Global Nutrition Security
This blog was originally posted on the State of the Planet. Dr. Paul Pronyk also contributed to this post. As the world reflects back this week on the ten-year progress made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the … Continue reading
Posted in development, food Insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, nutrition, undernutrition
Tagged food price crisis, MDG summit, MDG1, UN, undernutrition, underweight
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Huffington Post on Plumpynut
Here is the post that Jeff Sachs, Sonia Sachs and I published on the Huffington regarding the recent NYT article on Plumpy Nut.
Posted in african foods, agriculture, malnutrition
Tagged africa, agriculture, Huffington Post, Jeff Sachs, plumpynut
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controversy of Plumpynut, the nutrient dense paste to treat malnutrition
A recent NYT magazine article on “plumpynut” the ready-to-use therapeutic food was published under much controversy over its proper usage, its price tag and its patent (owned by a french company) thus limiting its coverage and accessibility. Our response is … Continue reading
Posted in african foods, malnutrition
Tagged acute malnutrition, africa, new york times, peanuts, plumpynut, ready to use therapeutic food
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snacks and glints
An article in the Foreign Policy on how the cell phone has revolutionized banking, loans and economic growth in the developing world. Such simple technology can cause a revolution. How can this sort of technology be used in nutrition and … Continue reading
Posted in malnutrition, undernutrition
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