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Eyeing up intake: an Insight on overconsumption and diet

  • Date: 22 August 2016
  • Author(s): Sian Williams

How can we help people make better dietary choices for their health and the planet? The Global Food Security programme’s Sian Williams introduces a new report.

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Is a healthy diet affordable?

  • Date: 27 May 2015
  • Author(s): Valerie Nadeau

Use of food banks is rising, but so are levels of obesity. Has it become impossible to eat cheaply but well? BBSRC Strategy and Policy Officer Valerie Nadeau tucks in.

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Why schools should be on the frontline in combating malnutrition

  • Date: 16 March 2015
  • Author(s): Francis Peel

When it comes to child nutrition, it needn’t be all doom and gloom. Francis Peel from the Partnership for Child Development explains why.

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Hidden Hunger: Biofortified wheat and zinc deficiency in Pakistan

  • Date: 5 March 2018
  • Author(s): Heather Ohly

Zinc deficiency affects around 17% of the world’s population, mostly in developing countries. In Pakistan, the most recent national nutrition survey indicated that over 40% of women are zinc deficient. Could using a new type of flour in cooking help tackle this deficiency?

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ECR Policy Lab on the determinants of food choice for healthy and sustainable diets

  • Date: 5 January 2018

The Global Food Security (GFS) programme invites expressions of interest from post-doctoral researchers to take part in a Policy Lab on the determinants of food choice (for example biological, social, environmental, physical and economic) and the combination of interventions across these that will lead to healthier and more sustainable diets.

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