1. Abstract - PubMed, 2011 BACKGROUND: In Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children under five years in age are chronically undernourished. As new investments and attention galvanize action on African agriculture to reduce hunger, there is an urgent need for metrics that monitor agricultural progress...
  2. 20/01/2008 Évaluer simultanément la nutrition et la biodiversité, à l’aide d’une série d’indicateurs, est au coeur de la nouvelle Initiative intersectorielle sur la biodiversité pour l’alimentation et la nutrition, dirigée par la FAO en collaboration avec Bioversity International et d’autres partenaires. La...
  3. 20/01/2011 Présenter la nutrition et la biodiversité comme une même question est l’une des principales raisons d’être de l’Initiative intersectorielle sur la biodiversité pour l’alimentation et la nutrition, dirigée par la FAO en collaboration avec Bioversity International. Le but général de cette...
  4. Nutrition and biodiversity converge to a common path leading to food security and sustainable development. They feature directly theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs): halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger; and ensure environmental sustainability. In combination, nutrition and...
  5. A recent paper by Dr Carl Lachat of Ghent University,Jessica Raneriof Bioversity International, and others introduces Dietary Species Richness, a new food biodiversity indicator to help examine the correlation between agrobiodiversity and diet quality. Nutrition Research Specialist, Raneri...
  6. This web site allows simple searches of the USDA Food Composition Databases which includes the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) and the USDA Branded Food Products database. Also included in the SR are data from the USDA Database for the Isoflavone Content of Selected...