Childhood Obesity: Stigma, Impacts, and Interventions
More than 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. The surging numbers of childhood obesity indicates the urgent need for a collective effort to combat the chronic disease.... Read more
Food Security
Contributing to Good, Clean, and Fair Local Food Systems with Slow Food
The Italy-based organization Slow Food aims to preserve local food systems and bring back people’s interest in the food they eat. ... Read more
Interventions for Consumer Behavior Change to Reduce Food Waste
Interventions are needed to build a more sustainable food system, including changing consumers’ behaviors to reduce food waste.... Read more
With and By the People: Local Farmers’ Journey to Restore Kenya’s Soil
The Drylands Farmer Research Network aims to include farmers’ essential wisdom and insights regarding their own lands.... Read more
Rethinking Agrifood Policies for Healthy Diets for Everyone
It is possible to reallocate the existing budgets to provide healthy diets that are more affordable, accessible, sustainable, and inclusive for everyone.... Read more
Developing Sustainable Urban Farming in Singapore
National University of Singapore officially launched the Research Centre on Sustainable Urban Farming (SUrF). It undertakes multidisciplinary research that combines Science, Engineering, and Computing.... Read more
Seven Years of Improving Rice and Coffee Production in Vietnam
The Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation (VnSAT) Project, financed by the World Bank, successfully wrapped up its seven years of operation.... Read more
The Fall of Indonesia’s Golden Age of Rice
We need powerful and continuous nationwide programs and campaigns to undo hundreds of years of socio-cultural "brainwashing" on rice.... Read more
How Global Poverty and Hunger Look Like Now
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 shows how the world has been reversing years of progress on global poverty and hunger.... Read more
Our Very Body: A Documentary Film Advocates for Soil Restoration
“When soil dies, everything else dies with it, including us.”
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