The presentation provides a nutrition profile from African data that indicates the prevalence of adult overweight and obesity.
The presentation promotes the integration of local food into city planning. It illustrates how city planners and local governments have no clear planning provisions for food markets/traders, which results in food insecurity and malnutrition.
This presentation by African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) reviews the institutional framework within which food systems have to operate. The planning system is one of the most important tools for government to influence society.
The Chisokone food market in urban Kitwe (Zambia) occupied zoned land that could be used for a mall and was relocated to make way for “development.” This presentation by African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) reviews the urban planning framew
Despite an inflow of investment in rural communities, there are concerns about negative impacts on local people’s livelihoods, access to farming land, productivity, income levels, food security and access to social services.
The present report highlights key results from the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF), a nine-year, CA$124 million fund, jointly funded by IDRC and Global Affairs Canada to address the critical challenge of global hunger t
This commercially viable and scalable franchise model brings supplies, knowledge, jobs and profits to rural farming communities in Kenya, and is a more profitable model for local agro-dealers.
Farmers, breeders and scientists collaborated on the development and selection of three new varieties of yellow potatoes (Criolla Ocarina, Criolla Sua Pa and Criolla Dorada) with higher nutritional content, increased resistance to late blight dise
A single-dose vaccine was successfully developed that is heat-stable and can potentially provide livestock with long-term protection against five diseases: lumpy skin disease (LSD), sheep pox (SPP), goat pox (GTP), Rift Valley Fever (RVF), and pes
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have demonstrated for the first time that unrefined sunflower oil can be fortified on a small scale and can increase nutrition for the most vulnerable people, particularly lactating mothers and children.