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,...
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...
Earthspired All India Recipe Contest’s First Place winner was Divya Jain from Bangalore. Mrida’s Health and Wellness brand “Earthspired,” which ran an All India Recipe Contest for nutritionists and dieticians in January 2019, announced the names of its winners...
