“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...
Prashant Parmeswaran-led Soulfull works in sync with major research organisations and government bodies to promote millets as a national smart food. It employs 150 people and clocked a turnover of Rs 11 crore in 2017-18. People around the world are realising the side...
