This blog post by Jennifer Nielsen was originally published on Seed to Sight, Helen Keller International’s blog, for Breastfeeding Awareness Month. My job as HKI’s senior program manager for nutrition and health is, in some ways, not unlike that of advertising executive. I sell a product. In my case, the product is not fancy shoes
School children watering the sweet potato fields. Photo credit: Stephanie Savariaud/ WFP World Food Programme Field Officer Stephanie Savariaud reports from Ethiopia, where she is based. “I heard about sweet potatoes on the radio, and we talked about them at my school’s science club, but I have never eaten one before. I am waiting for
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This piece was originally published on ONE’s Africa blog. “Because this continent is not only going to feed itself, we have to feed the world” As today is World Food Day, it is an appropriate time to recognise and appreciate the importance of Africa’s principals food producers; women farmers. Roughly 70% of small holder farmers
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As fall begins to unfold in all its chilly glory, we are all going to be seeking some hearty and nutritious food to get us through the cold nights – and nothing fits that bill better than the star of our campaign to end child malnutrition, the humble sweet potato. Photo caption: Sweet potato pancakes
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While other awesome ONE world Food Day events took place around lunch last week, San Francisco ONE members, partners and friends woke up early to serve local bakery Sweet Construction’s awesome sweet potato muffins to customers at ING Direct Cafe on Post Street.
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Zali, age 12, was forced to marry an older man This piece was written by Erin Kennedy, advocacy technical adviser for CARE’s Gender and Empowerment Unit “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.” Frank Sinatra’s famous refrain didn’t invent the notion that marital bliss is based on a deep and mutual emotional
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ONE members, staffers and supporters gathered at Chef Spike Mendelsohn’s restaurant We, The Pizza on Capitol Hill for World Food Day last week. ONE CEO Michael Elliott and ONE Mom Community Partner Stacey Ferguson joined Chef Spike, a former Top Chef contestant, to discuss the value of nutrition. Guests were able to sample his new
Photo caption: Libby, Claude the Sweet Potato, and World Food Prize President Ken Quinn Last Tuesday was World Food Day but here in Des Moines, Iowa, it felt like World Food Week! While global leaders like UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon were gathering in Des Moines for the annual World Food Prize, ONE members,
ONE Regional Field Director Abby Sasser provides a recap of ONE’s World Food Day event in Atlanta. ONE Supporter, Top Chef Master and Judge Hugh Acheson whipped up a delicious sweet potato soup for a packed room at The Viking Cooking School in Atlanta last Tuesday on World Food Day. During the cooking demonstration he
With the sweet potato on the menu and nutrition on the agenda, ONE hosted an event to commemorate World Food Day in Denver at the CU Anschutz Health & Wellness Center. According to its Chief Strategy Officer and Associate Professor at the Center for Human Nutrition, Dr. John C. Peters, the center was developed to
High school student Camaron Engels reached out to ONE board member Bobby Shriver to discuss extreme poverty during a recent Santa Monica City Council meeting, of which Mr. Shriver is councilmember. In this blog post, Camaron shares his experience. As the time for me to enter the Santa Monica City Council chamber approached, beads of
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