Well after many years working in trade and economics, four years ago, I found myself working on the front lines of human vulnerability. And I found myself in the places where people are fighting every day to survive and can't even obtain a meal. This red cup comes from Rwanda from a ...
Moreover, much processed food, like packaged milk, is a boon to nutrition, and the processed food system is a major source of jobs for women. On the other hand, the portion (some 10–30%) of processed food that is ultra-processed is a public health challenge, and policy must address ...
There are many examples of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, some of them having reached catastrophic dimensions, for example, in the Horn of Africa or southern Madagascar. Food insecurity is not just about insufficient food production, availability, and intake, it is also about the poor ...
Grocers jostle for position in Brazil Grocery Manufacturers Association Groupe Bel Groupe Doux Groupe MOM Growth in Chinese dairy Growth in the UAE Growth of the gluten-free market Growth-hungry US manufacturers turn to M&A Gruma Grupo Bimbo Grupo Eroski Grupo Lala Grupo Nacional de Chocolates Grupo...
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We just declared that teachers would now speak English or lose their jobs, so they often lied that they speak English. Let me tell you now, today as we speak, majority of teachers even university teach in Kinyarwanda. It was collective rebellion, they would all not learn so they could ...
She is a stalwart ally of former US national security adviser Susan Rice, who pushed for war in Libya, supported the invasion of Iraq, and was involved in the decision to remove peacekeepers from the United Nations which enabled Rwanda genocide. As a developer and manager for US policy ...
According to Betty Kibaara, the associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Africa Office, the amount of food lost or wasted every year could feed an estimated 1.6 billion people but instead, 795 million people go hungry worldwide. ...
Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit and eat it. Some of the broader dangers were cited recently by Norman Borlaug, winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of wheat strains essential for the famed Green ...
Perhaps most exciting to me is an idea that Bill Gates, Howard Buffett and others have supported boldly, which is to ask the question: What if, instead of looking at the hungry as victims -- and most of them are small farmers who cannot raise enough food or sell food to even support ...