Since its launch in 2013, it has brought together teachers and students, policy makers, school cooks, chefs, food and nutrition professionals, schools and communities, charities, businesses and health professionals from around the world to talk about the importance of school meals and its impact on wellbeing and education.
Author: Sarah Polaski
Thailand food security report points to increasing malnourishment and obesity in Thailand
Biodiversity, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Sovereignty Action Thailand Foundation (BioThai) yesterday published its 2017 annual report on the food security situation for Thailand, which revealed a worrying trend of a widening inequality gap in the access to food. BioThai Foundation director Withoon Lienchamroon said that despite being a food exporting country, some 6.5 million Thais still did not get enough food and more than 600,000 children suffered from malnutrition, which affected their physical development. At the same time, the obesity rate had doubled from the last decade in Thailand and more than 5 million people were judged to be overweight.
Jamaican official urges unity among Latin American and Caribbean states to address food security
Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Karl Samuda, says food security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can only be addressed by collaboration among countries while addressing the final press conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Regional Conference for LAC on Thursday at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St James.
Edmonton chef cooking up a plan to boost food security
Leftovers YEG picks up excess food from restaurants and grocery stores and delivers it to service agencies in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bolivia’s indigenous women cope with climate change
Women in Bolivia must adapt to climate change as they work to feed their families throughout the year
Op-Ed: International Women’s Day and food security
William Lambers, author of Ending World Hunger, advocates for school meal programs in the developing world
‘Women Ending Hunger’ March Challenge at Virginia Food Bank
The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore started its “Women Ending Hunger Challenge.” With donations slow after the holidays and during the summer, the friendly competition will help meet the need for food for 42,000 children in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
Africa ‘set to miss UN development goal on malnutrition’
Exceptionally detailed maps of child growth and education across Africa suggest that no single country is set to end childhood malnutrition by 2030.
That target was set by the UN as a Sustainable Development Goal.
Students tackle food security issue
With Trinidad and Tobago facing a huge food import bill annually, due in par to insufficient agriculture production, some schools have taken an initiative to grow food on their compound. And it has caught the attention of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
Cornell-Led Project Awarded $35 Million to Research Crop Vital to Africa’s Food Security
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom government collectively awarded $35 million to a Cornell project researching and promoting the use of cassava, a carbohydrate-rich tuber plant, in sub-Saharan Africa.
