Recognising the importance of millets, the government declared 2018 as the Year of Millets. Tagging millets as nutri-cereals, the Indian government has also approached the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to observe an International Year of Millets. Easy to grow...
“Before, our food was like poison in our bodies, but now it is like medicine,” says Eunice Wango Manga, a farmer in Kitui County in Eastern Kenya. Her family and community are among the beneficiaries of an FAO project to make smallholder households eat better and grow...
At a Glance Food production is the largest driver of global environmental change.Our changing dietary habits are causing irreversible damage to the planet.To mitigate climate change, the Lancet Commission recommends more plant-based foods and less animal source foods,...
Fortification of staples like rice and wheat with iron, zinc and vitamins, re-introducing the protein and mineral -rich millets into the food basket in a big way, the importance of animal products like milk, meat, eggs and fish in daily diet, focusing on behavior...
The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) have launched ‘FeFA Girls’, an initiative to tackle malnutrition among adolescent girls. The aim is to prepare diet-based approaches to improve...
