First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Nutrition
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Video roadshows transform African agriculture
Techniques to improve the nutritional content and processing of crops are better spread using video, suggests a programme in Benin.
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One Li'l Piggy In The Bank
Talking Cash * Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar: Self-employment through a mix of subsidy and bank credit. * NREGS: Wages deposited in bank/post office according to employment days. Indira Awas: Rs 35,000 given in cash instalments to build a house. * Janani Swasth: Cash to mother on discharge from hospital post-delivery.
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The lonely eater
Meal times are on their way out "YOU are what you eat." In no time in history does this aphorism hold more grain than now. At times, ours seems to be a nutrition-obsessed civilization. In supermarkets, especially in middle-class neighbourhoods, buying food has become like conducting a scientific experiment. Individuals spend hours looking at food packet labels
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A thousand flavours
The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food
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Nutritional norms for poverty: issues and implications
Since Independence, an era marked largely by limited income and growth, the Government of India has been pursuing its policies for economic welfare with reference to a nutrition-based subsistence norm. The concept and method of estimating poverty has come in for criticism in recent years in the context of economic policy reforms based on targeted policy interventions;
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Proposed national food security act: a concept note
Food security refers to a situation that exists when all people at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In order to provide food security to all citizens of the country especially the BPL households, it is proposed to enact a National Food Security Act.
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Coping with increasing food prices in Nakuru, Kenya: Urban school farming as a way to make school lunches affordable
School feeding is common in Africa and widely recognised as beneficial for both the physical and mental development of the children. However, mainly due to the sharp increase of food prices, many parents are no longer able to pay for their children
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Building the resilience of vulnerable communities in Quito: Adapting local food systems to climate change
Marginalized urban communities living in informal settlements or on fragile hillsides and slopes in Quito, Ecuador, are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, as they are highly exposed to frequent floods and landslides, droughts, food scarcity and uncertain food supply chains.
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Promoting access to food in Contagem, Brazil
The municipality of Contagem in the State of Minas Gerais, despite being known as an industrial centre, has an enormous potential to develop urban agriculture. The current administration recognises this, and supports the development of agriculture as an important strategy for consolidating its Municipal Food and Nutritional Security Policy.
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Cross-sectional growth curves for height, weight and body mass index for affluent Indian children
The assessment of growth is crucial in child care and reference data are central to growth monitoring. As the pattern of growth of a population changes with time it is recommended that references be updated regularly. The objective of this study was to produce contemporary growth curves for Indian children from 5-18 years for height, weight and BMI.