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Improving nutrition and food security - global development professionals network

March 2016

  • Workers move sacks of emergency food supplies in and out of Ethiopia’s largest “strategic grain reserve” depot in Adam

    As drought hits Ethiopia again, food aid risks breaking resilience

    Tate Munro and Lorenz Wild
    Importing emergency food rations on a large scale overrides local efforts to produce food and undermines the systems needed to withstand future crises

February 2016

  • A young tea picker in the province of Byumba, Rwanda.

    To reduce hunger in Africa, work with poor farmers – not against them

    Neil Dawson
  • Food Stall on Long Street, Cape Town

    Rising to the nutrition challenge: South Africa's new obesity research centre

  • 2 Members of the Maa Lankeshwari Seed Bank1

    Meet India's female 'seed guardians' pioneering organic farming

  • Shrimp farmer in Bangladesh

    The Bangladesh shrimp farmers facing life on the edge

January 2016

  • Tonlé Sap river

    Wonder of the aquatic world under threat from plans for Mekong dams

    Scientists warn that plans to build dams across Tonlé Sap, south-east Asia’s greatest lake, could be an ecological timebomb threatening the food security of millions

December 2015

  • A rice field outside Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Best bits
    Nine ways to improve nutrition and tackle climate change

    How should we deal with the serious threat climate change poses to nutrition and food security? Our panel of experts have their say

November 2015

  • An infant is lifted out of a plastic bucket where it has been playing in a market in Brazil

    We can’t achieve the Global Goals without a focus on child nutrition

    Saul Morris
  • Live Q&A: how do we improve nutrition while tackling climate change?

  • Seedfest India

    How a successful collective of smallholder farmers in India is showing the way

  • Indian woman sitting on bench at McDonald's fast food restaurant, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia<br>C3TKG0 Indian woman sitting on bench at McDonald's fast food restaurant, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

    Best bits
    14 steps to eradicating malnutrition in 15 years

October 2015

  • Food market in India.

    Live Q&A: Improving nutrition by 2030 - how do we get there?

  • WFP FM Myanmar-0983

    Family dinner time around the world - in pictures

September 2015

  • Malawi farmers

    Malawi's young farmers: 'Village life has to become more attractive'

    In Malawi, where two out of three people are under 25, the farming sector is offering opportunities for jobs and innovation
  • Urban farming

    Urban farmers around the world – in pictures

    We asked our community to share pictures and stories of farming projects in cities across the globe. Here are our favourites
  • Ponte City mother

    The breast milk banks reshaping South African attitudes

    In a country where a premature baby dies every 20 minutes, community-based organisations are leading a shift in attitudes to breastfeeding – and saving lives

August 2015

  • Telica volcano

    Food insecurity in Nicaragua: farming on the edge of a volcano

    Not having enough food is a constant threat for the families living and farming on the slopes of Telica volcano. A model farm project is trying to change that
  • Children at school in eastern Kenya

    Explainer: Where were you in the #wormwars?

    After doubt was cast on an influential scientific study two weeks ago, trenches were dug for the ‘worm wars’. Whose side are you on?
  • Ugandan farmers

    Dodgy fertiliser is keeping Uganda hungry

    A new study suggests that good quality fertiliser is more important than agricultural education or micro credit for improving food security in Uganda

July 2015

  • Children queue for food at a refugee camp on the Burma-China border.

    The hunger numbers: are we counting right?

    Jason Hickel
    Are we using the right methodology to count the number of hungry people in the world? Are we really going in the right direction to end hunger?
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