Permaculture helps subsistence farmers in Malawi access nutritious produce year round.
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John Hopkins Supports Research in the Public Health Benefits of Aquaculture
Johns Hopkins’s Center for a Livable Future supports research connecting aquaculture and public health.
Cooking Classes give Somali Refugees Lessons on Health and Heritage
Cooking classes for Somali refugees help mothers and daughters bond and develop healthy cooking traditions.
World Health Day: Investing in Vegetables is a Win-Win-Win
Today’s post in Food Tank’s World Health Day series focuses the power of veggies and how they can address the world’s health problems
World Health Day 2013: Spotlight on Food and High Blood Pressure
Food Tank’s World Health Day series spotlights how changes in both food and agriculture systems can address the world’s health problems.
Trees That Feed Foundation Promotes Wellbeing for People and Planet
The Trees That Feed Foundation plants edible trees in developing nations that feed people, create jobs, and protect the environment.
Isha Datar’s In Vitro Meat
Isha Datar offers a novel–and possibly environmentally friendly–solution to meat production by growing muscle cells in vitro.
Global Spotlight on Family Farmers
The United Nations has designated next year, 2014, the International Year of the Family Farmer (IYFF), and preparations around the world are already beginning.
Can Changing Your Front Lawn Change the Way You Eat?
Edible Estates and Michael Pollan question traditional front lawns. Instead they are asking, how would our food system change if everyone gardened at home?
Giving Hungry People Money Instead of Food?
Report from International Food Policy Research Institute finds that giving people in need money or food vouchers is more effective than food itself.
When Food Strikes: Falling Victim to Foodborne Illnesses
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), one in six Americans (or 48 million people) contract a foodborne illness every year, and 128,000 people become hospitalized and 3,000 die.
Quinoa: Key to Global Food Security?
Expanding cultivation of quinoa into more countries can help contribute to global food security for the planet’s nearly 1 billion hungry people.
Creative data and app-based initiatives for resolving hunger
Projects that connect current technology and social entrepreneurship to fight hunger
