Mantasa, a research institution and advocacy organization based in East Java, Indonesia is working to change the narrative of Indigenous food and nutrition sovereignty across Indonesia by reincorporating Indigenous wisdom and native wild plants into Indonesian diets. Mantasa works with Javanese, Papuan, and other Indigenous villages to domesticate wild edible plants and grow them
The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II. It predicts a doubling of the number of people going hungry – more than half of them in sub-Saharan Africa. So far, the global food system has proven to be resilient to the COVID-19
Chefs are agents of change in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and play an important role in inspiring people around the world to support sustainable food production, adopt healthy diets and avoid food waste. This was the central message of a recent international symposium hosted by the Food and Agriculture
The Spanish town of Narón last year launched a pioneering healthy lifestyle initiative to help its nearly 40,000 residents shed a collective 100,000 kilos over a two-year period. So far, it’s working, as the Galician town has lost over 46,000 kilos over the past year. The health authorities Narón, in
