Monthly Archives: September 2010

Nutrition should be integral to agricultural and development programmes to pre-empt child malnutrition (IRINNews)

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=90601 Growing food for nutrition GRAND BASSAM, 27 September 2010 (IRIN) – “Animal production – that is nutrition.” The statement by Victoria Tsekpo of Ghana’s Food and Agriculture Ministry summed up one of the themes that emerged at a nutrition forum … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition

Homes heated by district centres rather than in individual households (Science Daily)

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100924095819.htm How Heating Our Homes Could Help Reduce Climate Change ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2010) — A radical new heating system where homes would be heated by district centres rather than in individual households could dramatically cut greenhouse … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate / climate change, energy/bioenergy/biofuels

How plants modify their root architecture based on nutrient availability in the soil (Science Daily)

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100614121600.htm Getting to the Root of Nutrient Sensing ScienceDaily (June 14, 2010) — New research published by Cell Press in the June 15th issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals how plants modify their root architecture based … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture

Sensor to understanding of how auxin regulates root growth and seedling establishment (Science Daily)

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823162326.htm Sensor Important to Understanding Root, Seedling Development ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2010) — A biosensor utilizing black platinum and carbon nanotubes developed at Purdue University will help give scientists a better understanding of how the plant hormone … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture

1917-2010, nothing new under the sun: It is food that will win our battles (John Dewey’s 1917 pamphlet on school farms / Food Politics / Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=hunger John Dewey on school farms. Reauthorize child nutrition! by Marion Nestle Sept. 15, 2010 ———– I highly appreciated Marion Nestle’s article on the importance of school farms (or gardens) and the “Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition, school gardens

School farms: urging schools to teach kids how to farm (Food Politics)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=hunger John Dewey on school farms. Reauthorize child nutrition! Thanks to Daniel Bowman Simon who knows that I love old materials on American food politics.  He just sent me this 1917 World War I pamphlet—written by the … Continue reading →

Posted in food / food security, gardening kids, hunger / famine, malnutrition, school gardens

Acquiring agricultural land and the water rights that go with it (Food Politics)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=malnutrition May 27, 2009 Outsourced agriculture: the new colonialism? The Economist, that radical magazine, has produced an editorial and a long article about how rich countries in the Middle East and Asia are rapidly acquiring agricultural land … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, land grab

Natural disaster is surely the most important for acute malnutrition (Food Politics)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=malnutrition International food politics: Pakistan If the most important risk factor for chronic malnutrition is poverty, natural disaster is surely the most important for acute malnutrition.   Nutrition problems created by natural disasters usually can be alleviated by … Continue reading →

Posted in malnutrition

“With a coherent and coordinated global response, halving hunger is still possible” (Food Politics / Oxfam)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/ This is good news? U.N. says 925 million people are chronically hungry by Marion Nestle The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program released their most recent figures on world hunger yesterday. The good … Continue reading →

Posted in FAO, food / food security, hunger / famine, OXFAM

FAO presents a model of success in halting desertification in the Sahel (Google / La Vida Locavore)

Posted on September 25, 2010 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4032/putting-a-stop-to-the-spreading-sands Putting a Stop to the Spreading Sands by: NourishingthePlanet Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet Throughout the Sahel, recurrent drought since the late 1960′s is turning once crop covered land … Continue reading →

Posted in afforestation, FAO, reforestation, sand fixation