Asia
Indonesia is hungry for a better food policy
Despite years of reasonable economic growth, 19.4 million Indonesians are still unable to meet their daily dietary needs. Rainer Heufers, Executive Director of the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) and Arianto A Patunru, a Fellow in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics and the Indonesi...
Malnutrition Not Just a Poor Country Problem
New research underscores the fact that malnutrition, while rampant in middle-income countries, is often ignored by donors, leaving those countries to bear the burden of nutrition programs....
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 Wit...
Food security project to benefit 3512 people
THE Save the Children (SC) Fiji Knowledge and Action in Agriculture and Food Security (KANA) project is expected to benefit as many as 3512 people living in Ra and Koro Island. The project aims to develop commercial and subsistence agriculture that is resilient and reliable, provided food security a...
World Food Programme Lauds Pakistan For Improving Food Security
The United Nation World Food Programme in its recent report has said that Pakistan has made significant progress over the past decades and brought food security and nutrition to a more prominent place since 2010....
Flour Power: Turkmenistan Mulling ‘Surplus Confiscation’ Amid Shortage
Households that authorities deem have more flour than they require face punishment from authorities as the scarcity of flour in Turkmenistan adds to growing food prices and shortages of basic foods, a major problem facing the country over the past two years. ...
How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
As more Chinese crave Western-style diets, the booming nation rushes to industrialize an agricultural economy long built around small farms....
One Man’s Stand Against Junk Food as Diabetes Climbs Across India
India is “sitting on a volcano” of diabetes. A father’s effort to banjunk food sales in and near schools aims to change what children eat....
‘Closed loop’ urban farm in Singapore tackles food waste with insects
Citizen Farm in Queenstown has been using the black soldier fly to help grow its vegetables, as food for its fish and to help tackle food waste - the first in Singapore to incorporate these insects as part of farming practice....
Fisheries crucial for food security in Myanmar
Fisheries are vital to reduce the malnutrition rate and improve food security in Myanmar....
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