BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has launched a global initiative to raise awareness of issues related to food security and waste through a series of nearly 100 employee volunteer events that ...
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The projects in India are aimed at mitigating infant malnutrition in the Darbhanga region in the state of Bihar and helping with the fight against visceral leishmaniasis (or kala azar) in the nearby city of Vaishali The Turkish initiative ...
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Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian International Food Security Centre (AIFSC) have announced a 4-year, C$15m ($14.42m) research partnership to improve food security in Africa. The project, which ...
Tags: Food Security, Agriculture
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the ...
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Scientists used an iPhone and a camera lens to diagnose intestinal worms in rural Tanzania, a breakthrough that could help doctors treat patients infected with the parasites, a study said on Tuesday. Research published by the American ...
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A commercially available forward osmosis system – the HydroWell system from Hydration Technology Innovations – has been evaluated for use in disaster relief applications. An economic model demonstrates ways to minimise the cost ...
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Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
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In many rural areas of the world, there is no electricity – which also means there is no clean drinking water, no access to information, education or modern forms of communication. For five years exactly now, SolarWorld AG has been ...
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From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
Tags: CSR, Industry, Agriculture Food
With funding from The Hershey Co., Project Peanut Butter will make and distribute vitamin-enriched nutritional packets to impoverished children in rural Ghana. Through Project Peanut Butter, children in rural Ghana will receive ...
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Labeling food as "organic" may not always lead to a positive impression, according to a recent Cornell University study. The research, published Nov. 27 online in the journal Appetite, flips the notion of a "halo" effect for ethical food ...
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Back in 2006,USDA's Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture published a report predicting what U.S.and world agriculture might look like in 2015.That's basically two years away from now,close enough to apply a ...
NineSigma has partnered with The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sight and Life, DSM's nutrition think tank to help Scientists Without Borders find more sustainable packaging for ...
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A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television last night. Campaigners and the media are calling on H&M to respond to ...
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NineSigma,an open innovation services provider,has announced that it is partnering with Scientists Without Borders-a web-based collaborative community,to find more sustainable packaging for micronutrient powders(MNPs). Other partners in ...
Tags: MNPs, collaborative community, packaging