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Biofortified GM bananas

Posted on June 22, 2014 by argylesock

James Dale is a scientist at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT, Australia). His lab has developed a genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered) banana (Musa × paradisiaca) rich in ‘pro-vitamin A’. Here’s the QUT report. This is the ‘super banana’ … Continue reading →

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Call for articles: Nutritional values and family farming

Posted on June 16, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on AGRICULTURE BLOG…..:
Farming Matters | 30.2 | June 2014 We are told of the great advances that have been made in ‘modern’ agriculture in the last 60 years. Yet there are more hungry and malnourished people on…

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Rising levels of CO2 could exacerbate malnutrition

Posted on May 16, 2014 by argylesock

argylesock says… Climate change is happening. We humans caused it. Here’s yet another way that climate change threatens people, especially poor people. [Edit] I looked up the original paper (behind a paywall, but my University library has a subscription) and … Continue reading →

Posted in food, human health, weather and climate | Tagged America, Asia, biofortification, carbon dioxide, child, climate, corn, crop variety, field pea, food quality, grain, iron, legume, maize, nutrition, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poverty, research, rice, selective breeding, sorghum, soya, staple food, vegetable, wheat, zinc | 2 Comments

The homogenisation and globalisation of diets

Posted on April 25, 2014 by argylesock

Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that some 75% of the diversity of cultivated crops was lost during the 20th Century and, by 2050, we could lose…

Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, human health, money and trade | Tagged Africa, America, Asia, cassava, city, climate, conservation, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, development, disease, Europe, Food and Agriculture Organization, food safety, genetic diversity, grain, human, iodine, iron, law, micronutrient, millet, neglected crop, nutrition, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, potato, prosperity, research, rice, rye, seedbank, staple food, sugar beet, sugar cane, sweet potato, trade, tuber, Vitamin A, wheat | 6 Comments

Remember the forgotten crops

Posted on December 24, 2013 by argylesock

This is my 1000th post on this blog. My 500th is here. I use my 1000th post to honour Monkombu Swaminathan, the scientist known as Father of the Green Revolution in India. Here’s an interview with Fred Pearce at Bioversity … Continue reading →

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History of Pearl millet

Posted on November 20, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on bbzfrankie:
Pearl millet is the most widely grown type of millet. It has been grown in Africa and the Indian subcontinent since prehistoric times. The center of diversity, and suggested area of domestication, for the crop is…

Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer | Tagged biofortification, breeding, child, crop, crop variety, domestication, food, grain, history, human, iron, Iron Rich Pearl Millet, millet, nutrition, pearl millet, plant_monocot, selective breeding, staple food | Leave a comment

Iron-Rich Pearl Millet against malnutrition

Posted on September 9, 2013 by argylesock

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is a staple food in resource-poor parts of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Many kids raised on pearl millet, or whose mothers ate mostly pearl millet, don’t get enough iron to grow up healthy. Now here’s pearl … Continue reading →

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New Commitments to Combat Malnutrition

Posted on June 9, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on ECO-opia:
June 8, 2013 by News from the CGIAR Consortium Speaking today at the event “Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger through Business and Science,” Rachel Kyte, Chair of the CGIAR Fund Council and World Bank Vice…

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Kale and the immune system ( #foodie Friday)

Posted on April 12, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Everything matters:
I know a lot of kale eaters…but apparently the typical American eats only 1 cup a year…I eat easily that much every couple of days at certain times of year…this is an interesting little video…and…

Posted in human health | Tagged brassica, human, immunity, iron, kale, nutrition, vegetable | 7 Comments

Forest foods against global malnutrition

Posted on April 10, 2013 by argylesock

Forests provide food for many people around the world. Julie Mollins at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) says that forest foods deserve more attention. Local varieties, local wild foods, many kinds of animal and plant food which might … Continue reading →

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