Earlier this summer, I was asked to speak at the Institute of Development Studies' Nutrition Summer School. It was a wonderfully sunny day and a chance for me to reflect on the challenges for all of us to ensure that …
It's a year since the Nutrition for Growth Summit was held in London. For those of us closely involved in the run up and delivery of the summit it is great to see that there is still some momentum and …
Last month I highlighted in my blog how I had learnt from colleagues about the huge waste of food caused by ‘post-harvest’ losses. Up to 30% of food, even in countries with high rates of undernutrition can be lost between …
It’s been quite a year for nutrition in DFID, and the world. As I was reflecting on the year a number of events struck me as the ones that I would remember. The G8 Nutrition for Growth meeting in June …
This Ramadan Britain’s biggest Muslim charity has issued a declaration of war, and Pakistan is one of our key battlegrounds. Islamic Relief's cause is a war not on man, but on hunger. Our War on Hunger fundraising drive is a logical …
We now know that undernutrition is the cause of nearly half of all child deaths – and we know what we can do about it. Last week there was a series of high level nutrition events in London. I’m part …
My name is Frank, I’m 17 years and live in Tanzania. When I was growing up I often had just 1 meal a day. Between the ages of 2 and 4, my family frequently faced hunger and malnutrition. Some days I felt …
Mitch Addison Lay has come all the way across the ocean to Dublin to tell us about the Caribbean Union of Fisherfolk Associations and their worries about diminishing fish stocks close to the shores of many of their islands. He was …
Until I arrived in the desert-like terrain of Chad, West Africa, and had driven the eight hours to the region of Guera, an area that sits on the periphery of the Sahel belt, I was struggling to visualise how the …
The rainy season is now in full swing and Northern Nigeria is rapidly greening once more, with crops of maize and millet growing fast. I’ve survived my last domestic flight through a brewing storm, with turbulence so bad it dumped most …
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