Plumpy’Nut beginnings
Editor’s note “Your idea has no future!” Michel Lescanne, a young agricultural engineer, had just handed in his final dissertation, and he was set on making his dream of designing...
From overflowing farm gates to empty food plates: the unfinished food journey
How to explain the Indian paradox that sees the country with the highest cereal production in the world experiencing one of the highest rates of undernutrition? Ashwini Kakkar traces the...
“Clean India”: why the undeniable success of the Swachh Bharat Mission does not signal the end of open defecation
A fact of life in India for centuries, this practice has major health implications. The author explains what these are and looks back at “Clean India”, a major national campaign...
Taliban policies are a nightmare; so are economic warfare and starvation
Is it moral to deprive Afghans of their State’s sovereign wealth on the grounds that the Taliban took control of the country on 15 August 2021? Without ignoring the dramatic...
Operational research and malnutrition: state of knowledge and food for thought
Many NGOs have already responded to the requirement of linking action and research. For instance, since 2016, Action Against Hunger has been holding a conference to take stock of these...