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In Remembrance of Dr. Peter Salama
Many of us in emergency nutrition field were shocked to hear that Dr. Peter Salama passed away last week. Peter died suddenly and unexpectedly of natural causes. He was 51 and leaves behind his wife and three children. At the time of his death, Peter, a medical epidemiologist from Australia, was w...
Mapped Malnutrition Data Shows Concerning Disparities in Many Countries
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published and analyzed mapped data from lower and middle income countries (LMIC) which showed geo-spatial malnutrition data which gives a more accurate picture of concerning disparities within and across countries. This article was in Nature ear...
Desert Locust Plague in East Africa
According to the cited article by the Associated Press, Kenya is experiencing the worst Desert Locust outbreak in the past 70 years. Ethiopia and Somalia are having the worst infestation since in the past 25 years. These attacks greatly affect food security in rural areas. ...
New Planning Tool – WFP’s HungerMap
On January 20, 2020 the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) launched HungerMap. HungerMap shows, in near real-time, current food security situations across the globe. This article, https://insight.wfp.org/wfp-launch...
An Interview with David Nabarro
Margie Ferris Morris and Peter Morris interviewed Dr. David Nabarro on a recent trip to Switzerland. David currently is the Founder and CEO of 4SD, a social enterprise based in Geneva. He has been a long-time advocate of nutrition and food security issues and was the recipient of the 2018 World ...
Healthy diet means a healthy planet, study shows
Healthier food choices almost always benefit environment as well, according to analysis ...
In photos: Finding food on the front line of climate change
Niger is one of the driest climates on earth. Yuk Sugiura's powerful pictures capture how its people are living amidst a silent hunger crisis...
The many faces of global hunger – in pictures
Three award-winning photographers capture what hunger looks like around the world...
One in three young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
Report finds 149 million children four or younger suffer stunting and that malnutrition costs the world $3.5tr yearly....
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World
When the Indian government bowed to powerful food companies last year and postponed its decision to put red warning labels on unhealthy packaged food, officials also sought to placate critics of the delay by creating an expert panel to review the proposed labeling system, which would have gone far b...
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