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Walter Willett // FARM-D

WEBHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the …

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Nourish the dialogue: Investing in nutrition and diets as significant

WEBMalnutrition remains a scourge in all regions of the world. More than 3.1 billion people — 42% of the global population — cannot afford a healthy diet, and the world is not on track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2 to achieve zero hunger. Unhealthy diets underpin many critical public health challenges, including undernutrition, …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

Case study explores a ‘One Health’ approach to crop and livestock …

WEBThe CABI Digital Library has published a new One Health Cases which explores how a ‘One Health’ approach to crop and livestock care in Uganda has been benefiting …

Category: Health Go Health

Katherine Kreis // FARM-D

WEBKatharine Kreis works with experts across PATH, civil society, and the private sector to improve nutrition and maternal and child health for people in 70 countries around the world. She leads our nutrition health impact team in an ongoing effort to identify, develop, and deploy new tools, technologies, and methodologies aimed at improving

Category: Nutrition Go Health

Crop-Livestock clinics in Uganda – One Health in practice

WEBThe pilot project started in Uganda in 2021, with four local districts’ governments setting up and running mobile crop-livestock clinics. Over 1,000 farmers attended, and women …

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The health economics of Aflatoxin: Global burden of disease

WEBIn 2004, several hundred Kenyans became severely ill, and 125 died, of acute aflatoxicosis: a disease of liver failure associated with consuming extremely high levels of aflatoxin in food (Lewis et al. 2005; Strosnider et al. 2006).

Category: Food Go Health

How the UN and partners are addressing COVID-19 impacts on …

WEBDisruptions of food systems amid COVID-19 may affect people’s nutritional and health status. Web-based resources from the UN System and other actors offer valuable knowledge to understand these impacts and the work to address them.

Category: Nutrition, Food Go Health

Food for thought: how tropical tree foods can nurture health

WEBA new study highlights the wide-ranging benefits of tropical trees. In addition to nutritional and environmental advantages, these trees can diversify farmers’ incomes and provide …

Category: Nutrition Go Health

Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation

WEBThe Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN) analyzes the complexity of current agri-food systems and, through a variety of initiatives, fosters change towards …

Category: Nutrition, Food Go Health

The importance of plant health to food security

WEBRapid food price rises have highlighted serious concerns about food security globally and have had a huge impact on achieving Millennium Development Goal 1.

Category: Food Go Health

Plantwise: plant doctors to cure crop diseases // FARM-D

WEBA global programme offers diagnosis and treatment for plants recovery from diseases. Crops get sick, in the same way as animals and human beings, but many smallholder …

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African Insect Science for Food and Health

WEBThe Centre’s mission is to use insect science for sustainable development, to ensure food security and improve the overall health of communities in Africa by addressing the …

Category: Food Go Health

Global Rice Science Partnership

WEBThe Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), an initiative of the CGIAR , provides a single strategic plan and unique new partnership platform for impact-oriented rice research for …

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Patrizia Fracassi // FARM-D

WEBPatrizia Fracassi is Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer at FAO leading the work on governance, policies, programmes and investments. Previously, she was the Senior Nutrition Analyst and Strategy Adviser at the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Secretariat focusing on Government-led multi-sectoral approaches for planning, costing, managing

Category: Nutrition, Food Go Health

Disease Control in Cassava Farms // FARM-D

WEBThe booklet is based largely on the extension and farmer training experience of the regional project “Ecologically Sustainable Cassava Plant Protection” (ESCaPP), 1993–1997. …

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Practitioner Directory // FARM-D

WEBThe 2XCollaborative is designed to serve investors making their first gender-focused investment as well as investors […]

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THE HEALTH ECONOMICS OF AFLATOXIN: GLOBAL BURDEN …

WEBAFLATOXINS AND THEIR HEALTH CONSEQUENCES Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus colonize a wide variety of food commodities including maize, oilseeds, …

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The role of piped water supplies in advancing health, economic

WEBIn rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, one in eight households obtain drinking water from a piped system; the rest fetch water from improved and unimproved sources located at …

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An analytical model of plant virus disease dynamics with roguing …

WEBStable equilibria are reached after several years. The dynamics of the model are highly sensitive to changes in contact rate and infectious period. 3. Disease management by …

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