Agriculture & Nutrition
30 indigenous crops promoting health and contributing to food security
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), just twelve crops provide 75 percent of the world’s food. Three of these crops, rice, maize, and wheat contribute to nearly 60 percent of the protein and calories obtained by humans from plants. Since the beginning of the 20th century,...
Tiny forage fish at bottom of marine food web get new protections
Sardines, herring and other small fish species are the foundation of the marine food web — they're essential food for birds, marine mammals and other fish....
Farming for a small planet: Agroecology now
The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. Industrial agriculture is chara...
The strange and surprising debate over how to help a malnourished kid
It used to be common knowledge: Malnourished kids need more protein to thrive. Then came a scathing paper in the Lancet in 1974 called "The Great Protein Fiasco." Filled with sarcasm, it argued that the nutrition community's fixation on protein was a waste of time and money....
Obituary in memory of Dr. Urban Jonsson
Urban Jonsson, a national of Sweden and resident of Tanzania, held a Ph.D. in Food Science with focus on Nutrition. He pursued advanced training on nutrition at Cornell University and lifelong studies in philosophy, mathematics and a series of other disciplines in order to build his impressive compe...
Three win Nobel Prize in medicine for work on tropical diseases river blindness, filariasis, and malaria
William Campbell’s eureka moment came in 1975, as he was testing a new medicine to fight parasites in domestic and farm animals. The Irish-born scientist realized a parasitic worm in horses bore an amazing resemblance to the parasite that causes river blindness in humans....
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy...
A tragic choice: Fight malaria or starve
Millions of mosquito nets are given out fight to malaria in Africa, yet many faced with hunger use them as fish nets, creating potential environmental problems....
Vaccine aide gunned down in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A health worker supervising a polio vaccination campaign was fatally shot and two others were wounded on Saturday when gunmen opened fire at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, officials said....
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