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Woman harvesting rice, Nepal

Why we need Sustainable Development Goals

Rio+20 must launch SDGs to guide countries through complex development challenges, argues Colombian ministry official Paula Caballero Gómez.

24 May 2012 | EN | ES

Biomed Analysis: Sustainability goals too light on health

The proposed Sustainable Development Goals need more focus on health to continue the progress achieved with MDGs, argues Priya Shetty.

16 February 2012 | EN | FR

Child cooking in a refugee camp, Kenya

We need better measures of food insecurity

We must find a better way of monitoring the impact of food insecurity, argues Derek D. Headey.

8 September 2011 | EN | ES

Cassava

How to feed the world without destroying the planet

Combined strategies are needed to meet the world's rising demands for food without further damage to biodiversity, says Jason Clay.

Source: Nature

28 July 2011 | EN | 中文

Nutrition should be a priority for agriculture

Development economist Lawrence Haddad argues that improving nutrition can, and should, be a central goal of agriculture.

23 December 2010 | EN | 中文

Farmer transplanting rice

Bringing agriculture and health back together

Agriculture and health experts must work together to tackle disease, poverty and malnutrition, says development expert Jeff Waage.

24 August 2010 | EN | 中文

Cuba: Gender and geography influence childhood obesity

Being a girl, or growing up in an urban setting, are factors conducive to unhealthy childhood weight gain in Cuba, says Manuel Hernández-Triana.

Source: MEDDIC

19 June 2010 | EN | ES

BioMed Analysis: Don't overlook nutrition in disease fight

Researchers and donors are not giving nutrition the attention it deserves, says Priya Shetty.

21 January 2010 | EN

Nutritional security is in the balance

Developing countries urgently need nutritional interventions to safeguard vulnerable people during economic crises, writes Suresh Babu.

20 January 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

The 'hidden hunger' caused by climate change

Understanding how carbon dioxide impacts food quality is vital to tackle malnutrition effectively, says agricultural researcher Lewis Ziska.

20 January 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Nutrition key to cutting infection rates

Micronutrients help fight disease — it's time to turn knowledge into action, say nutrition researchers Andrew Thorne-Lyman and Wafaie Fawzi.

20 January 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Food safety is critical to nutrition security

We must focus on food safety as well as nutrition to feed the hungry — but there are many barriers to safe eating, writes the WHO's Jørgen Schlundt.

20 January 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Using genetics to tackle malnutrition

Jim Kaput explains why efforts to tackle malnutrition should consider nutrigenomics — the interplay between food and genetic make-up.

20 January 2010 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

Can GM food mitigate world hunger?

Six experts, writing in The New York Times, discuss options for ensuring food security in the face of growing populations and climate change.

Source: New York Times

28 October 2009 | EN | 中文

Long-term effects of undernutrition must not be ignored

Understanding the long-term consequences of undernutrition in early life is essential for health policy, says Cesar G. Victora.

Source: The Lancet

8 October 2009 | EN

Agricultural genetics could help ensure food security

Translating genetics research is easier in agriculture than medicine, says a Nature Genetics editorial, and existing technologies can be used.

Source: Nature Genetics

4 June 2009 | EN

Green Park, Shanghai

China too must confront obesity

China must confront changing diets, more sedentary lives, and a 'plump is prosperous' culture to halt obesity, say Rachel Huxley and Yangfeng Wu.

28 August 2008 | EN | 中文

Obesity researchers must understand how capitalism works

To stem the spread of obesity, we must study the web of commercial interests and strategies driving it, says Jonathan Wells.

23 July 2008 | EN | ES | FR | 中文

A balanced diet is important — but can't cure disease

Nutrition and disease debate should shift to science

Science needs to be injected into the controversy over use of nutritional supplements in tackling HIV and tuberculosis, says Wieland Gevers.

23 August 2007 | EN

Golden rice 2 (left), golden rice 1 (top right) and normal rice (bottom right).

Golden GM rice shines again

An editorial in Nature Biotechnology argues that an improved strain of GM 'golden rice' could help feed the world's malnourished, provided opposition to GM crops declines.

Source: Nature Biotechnology

25 April 2005 | EN