The World Food Programme hosted a group of Liberian journalists at a two-day training in food and nutrition security reporting on Tuesday recently in Monrovia. The participating journalists, drawn mainly from the print, electronic and web-based media outlets, were drilled through the steps in reporting and highlighting food and nutrition security.
Author: Sarah Polaski
Egypt, FAO sign framework to raise food security
Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Abd El-Maneim El Banna and Hussein Gaden, representative of the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), signed the framework of the Egyptian national program for 2018-2022 which focuses on achieving three priorities: improving agricultural productivity, raising food security in strategic commodities, and sustainable use of natural agricultural resources.
Danielle Blair: Why not wasting food is important
Maine AmeriCorps volunteer Danielle Blair has been working with the United Way and food banks, and finding ways for Franklin County organizations, stores and farms to reduce food waste and food insecurity.
Detroit’s ‘food deserts’ are a burden for many
Detroit’s growing restaurant scene has sparked dialogue about the lack of grocery stores within the city. The Michigan Department of Agriculture has labeled 19 Detroit neighborhoods as a “food desert,” which is a term used to describe an urban area that lacks accessibility to quality and affordable food.
Establishing Food Security: It Takes a Village
University of California Riverside is helping grow the campus food pantry, R’Pantry, with the support of staff, faculty, and students. Using a combination of donated food, a community garden, and cash donations, they serve over a thousand students in need.
Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts
The Center for Biological Diversity and The “Ugly” Fruit and Veg Campaign recently asked the 10 largest U.S. supermarkets how they handle food waste, and gave each store’s efforts a letter grade: no store received an A grade.
Let’s Grow Maine: A plan to end hunger by 2020
The U.S. state of Maine can boost food security and support local farmers by purchasing wholesale vegetables and fruit for distribution to families in need.
Aid Groups Seek Greater Support for Rohingya Refugees Facing Trauma, Hunger
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are facing serious hunger issues: one quarter of children in the Cox’s Bazar camp are acutely malnourished, with 7.5 percent at a high risk of death from severe malnutrition, according to a study published on Tuesday.
More than 43 percent of children are chronically malnourished, said researchers from the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the charity Action Against Hunger, and UNHCR.
Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
This project from The World Bank Group, “Agriculture in Africa: Telling facts from Myths,” contains 14 studies exploring some facts about Agriculture in Africa that many experts and policy makers consider self-evident truths. But the rural landscape of the continent has evolved, as has the African farmer. In the current context, are these conventions about Africa’s agriculture still valid?
The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
According to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, 36 percent of US students at 66 surveyed colleges and universities do not get enough to eat, and a similar number lack a secure place to live.
