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Some foods may trigger chronic health conditions, others offer strong medicinal and protective qualities. Malnutrition i.e. hunger and obesity are the result of food insecurity which is pressing issue of the current time. Thus, food behaviour/choice is a huge to understand in human life.
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There are no miracle foods or diets that can prevent COVID-19
Taibat Ibitoye, University of Reading Since the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), there have been widespread claims on social media that certain foods and supplements can prevent or cure COVID-19. Even though the World Health Organization (WHO) has tried to dispel such myths surrounding “miracle” foods and coronavirus, misinformation continues to circulate. Though… Continue reading There are no miracle foods or diets that can prevent COVID-19
Free school meals: the lifelong impact of childhood food poverty
Regina Keith, University of Westminster The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on household food security in the UK. Five million families have encountered food insecurity, and 200,000 children are missing meals every day. Despite a campaign led by Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford, the UK government has voted against extending free… Continue reading Free school meals: the lifelong impact of childhood food poverty
Community supported agriculture to ensure wellbeing, food security and environment in the UK
INTRODUCTION and PROBLEM STATEMENT Agriculture is the source of food which is heavily exhausted due to human activities and Greenhouse Gas emission. Moreover, some of the planetary boundaries have already crossed their limitations and posed a risk of collapse (Rockström, et al., 2009). Besides that, hunger, obesity, diabetics, food waste, migration, conflict and climate change… Continue reading Community supported agriculture to ensure wellbeing, food security and environment in the UK
COVID-19 Exacerbates Childhood Malnutrition
Menaka Bhusal & Bonita Sharma Over the past couple of months, the world has witnessed the emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) disease. In December last year, the Chinese city of Wuhan first reported the outbreak of COVID-19. The lethal virus spread progressively to other countries with the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring it a… Continue reading COVID-19 Exacerbates Childhood Malnutrition
Why Nepal Is Exemplar Of Nutrition Movement
Atul Upadhyay, PhD On September 1, Bill Gates, co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in his blog, GatesNotes, write why some countries excel at saving lives. He further explains in a short video about the exemplary activities performed by Nepal to reduce stunting from 57 per cent in 2001 to 36 per cent in… Continue reading Why Nepal Is Exemplar Of Nutrition Movement
Better Food Choices For Better Nutrition
The World Food Day is being observed today with the theme “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together.” The occasion reminds us of the bitter fact that the countries are still fighting against the hunger and food crisis roiling the poorer section of humanity across the globe. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations started marking… Continue reading Better Food Choices For Better Nutrition
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)
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ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE
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Agro-forestry to preserve environment and gain more food
We need a clean environment to preserve earth by loving humanity however, natural settings of eco-system is being sabotaged. The excuse behind the sabotaging the natural order is economic growth. Indeed, Economic growth is essential to bring prosperity but growth should be pro-ecosystem, wellbeing and humanity. When growth is accelerated, the way of preserving environment… Continue reading Agro-forestry to preserve environment and gain more food
The global appetite for sand and fuelling crisis
Work conditions for sand miners vary starkly. In Cambodia and southwest China, highly mechanized sand mines offer little local employment. In Nepal, labour-intensive sand mines may employ hundreds of people. And, in Myanmar, households living along rivers may be involved in informal river sand collection. Melissa Marschke, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jean-François Rousseau, L’Université d’Ottawa/University… Continue reading The global appetite for sand and fuelling crisis
Happy New Year
Dear followers, best wishers and readers I wish you a very happy New Year 2020. On this occasion I would like to share an inspiring short podcast, interviewed with the great climate activist and an inspiring world icon Greta Thunberg by the Guardian journalist. Some of the sentences she mentioned during the interview are very… Continue reading Happy New Year
Change | Poetry
Change ! It seems an inappropriate to see the justice of life and happiness Because the city was made for the hunters by the hunters Who rather prefer to have flesh Hunting is their profession For food no alternative but to be sacrificed A different society we believe in The way the hunters believe in… Continue reading Change | Poetry
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COVID-19 & FOOD
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Features
Planetary Boundaries, Food and Humanity
Two of the nine planetary boundaries (Biochemical flows and Biosphere integrity) have already crossed their limitation and posed a great threat of sudden collapse. Read more
Food Security vs Legalising Cannabis
Could it be good to legalese cannabis? The answer should begin with why it was banned…however, the reality is that crime, smuggling, trafficking and black markets have been linked with such a narcotic market that does not pay any revenue to the state fund, even though the state must invest a huge amount to deal the issues associated with drugs, a hidden driver of socio-political instability, conflict and corruption. Read more
Philanthropy for an equitable society
The word philanthropy was first coined by the dramatist Aeschylus in 5th century BC to describe Prometheus’ character as ‘philanthropos tropos’ meaning was humanity loving. Traditionally philanthropy mean a charity or donation from rich to poor. Later it has been used as a shield by few elite to protect their business…It’s a massive business, with approximately $316 billion given away in 2012 in the United States alone’’, But on the contrary inequality is increasing. Read more
The PPP: Experience from the UK to Nepal
The UK government developed and implemented the PPP approach in health services in 1991 for the public services projects through with the private sector. Norwich’s 1000 bed hospital was the first project under PPP started from 1996. Now, UK has three-decade long experience of PPP in healthcare services as it has more than 130 projects and £12 billion of capital value. Read more
Water, Air and Land Nexus: A Safe Space for Preserving Climate and Achieving Food Security
These issues should be analysed, in consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis of 2008, and it should be considered whether our past development has addressed real needs. Father of modern linguistics Noam Chomsky underlined the fact on our Corona virus response that “ventilator shortage exposes the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism”. This seems to imply that, somehow, both nature and humanity are being ignored in the global development discourse…
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- There are no miracle foods or diets that can prevent COVID-19
Taibat Ibitoye, University of Reading Since the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), there have been widespread claims on… Continue reading There are no miracle foods or diets that can prevent COVID-19 - Free school meals: the lifelong impact of childhood food poverty
Regina Keith, University of Westminster The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on household food security in the UK.… Continue reading Free school meals: the lifelong impact of childhood food poverty - Community supported agriculture to ensure wellbeing, food security and environment in the UK
INTRODUCTION and PROBLEM STATEMENT Agriculture is the source of food which is heavily exhausted due to human activities and Greenhouse… Continue reading Community supported agriculture to ensure wellbeing, food security and environment in the UK - COVID-19 Exacerbates Childhood Malnutrition
Menaka Bhusal & Bonita Sharma Over the past couple of months, the world has witnessed the emergence of the novel… Continue reading COVID-19 Exacerbates Childhood Malnutrition - Why Nepal Is Exemplar Of Nutrition Movement
Atul Upadhyay, PhD On September 1, Bill Gates, co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in his blog, GatesNotes, write… Continue reading Why Nepal Is Exemplar Of Nutrition Movement - Better Food Choices For Better Nutrition
The World Food Day is being observed today with the theme “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together.” The occasion reminds us of… Continue reading Better Food Choices For Better Nutrition - Food Security vs Legalising Cannabis
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, has long held the attention of academia and policy makers on the question of whether… Continue reading Food Security vs Legalising Cannabis - Coronavirus vaccine: comprehensive guide by academic experts
Rob Reddick, The Conversation Since the early days of the pandemic, attention has focused on producing a vaccine for COVID-19.… Continue reading Coronavirus vaccine: comprehensive guide by academic experts - Vulnerable workers have been hit hardest by the COCID-19, why?
Brian McDonough, Solent University Deprived communities and the most vulnerable in society are bearing the brunt of hardship in the… Continue reading Vulnerable workers have been hit hardest by the COCID-19, why?
Review
BOOK REVIEWS
Abir: Unveils Discriminatory Thinking About Organs
Book Review Reading literature, for me, is a mind-blowing activity in leisure. I am passionate to read and write literature. So, to reward my passion, I randomly picked the Abir, a book of the novel written in the Nepali language, when I was on a holiday in Nepal. Symbolically, the name of the book is… Continue reading Abir: Unveils Discriminatory Thinking About Organs
Global warming has become a true challenge of globalisation: Stiglitz
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof Joseph Stiglitz- former Chief Economic Advisor to President Bill Clinton and World Bank) has claimed that globalisation has been discontents, so He has suggested the way of Making Globalisation Work. In his words: The Washington consensus had paid too little attention to equity. (17) Global warming has become a true challenge of globalization. (17) Economic… Continue reading Global warming has become a true challenge of globalisation: Stiglitz
Monasanto food politics
“We see balatant use here of Malthusian population theory,’ too many people and not enough food’ … and Monasanto’s technologies are an essential ingredient of any solution” -(Young, 2012, p78-79) Quite interesting book.
Postcapitalism: Paul Mason’s ‘guide to our future’?
Originally posted on The Political Economy of Development:
I said I would post something on Paul Mason’s thought-provoking book, Postcapitalism – a guide to our future, which has just come out in paperback. It makes a good read, and contains a wealth of ideas from economics, political economy, and futurism, all mixed together in the author’s…
The Growth Map: China and India are doing their best
China will have the largest economy in the world, the USA second and India will be third by 2035. Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) will be economically most powerful nations by 2050. GES, GSDEER and other economic indicators have been used to measure the economy.
China and India need to develop a more positive dialogue.
The capital account liberalization was the single most important factor leading to the crisis: Stiglitz
To abandon globalization is neither feasible nor desirable. The problems are not with globalization, but with how it has been managed. IMF, World Bank and WTO have served the interest of the advanced industrialized countries particularly narrow mind-sets rather than developing world. He believes globalization can be reshaped to realize its potentials.
Super-managers do not produce wealth but get highest income: Piketty
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is all about income inequality over several hundred years. Super managers, wolf of Wall Street, footballers and billionaires who are competing, i.e. ill competition or conflict, to increase their income from property and assets but majority of the people are looser. This is the meritocratic extremism. This is an absolute form of theft …
Modern Marx : Summary of Thomas Piketty’s Capital
Piketty’s work raises fundamental issues concerning both economic theory and the future of capitalism. He documents large increases in the wealth/output ratio. Piketty’s research suggests that the 1% and the 99% enshrined by Occupy are not an anomaly of our time; it’s a structural feature of capitalism.
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Killer blog. So glad I dropped by on a whim!
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Wow. Thank you so much Laura. Wish you all the best.
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