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Why isn’t Anne’s cow producing enough milk?
Andrea Borgarello/World Bank Anne Mutua is not your typical reality TV show contestant. She is a poor, smallholder farmer living outside Nairobi, Kenya. She doesn’t care much about outsmarting...
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Food Safety in China: Addressing Common Problems Requires Unusual Approaches
Over the past three decades, China has successfully lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty. For many years, the government’s poverty alleviation strategy focused on ensuring that every...
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Five reasons to act now to #endpollution
Did you know that about 3.7 million people worldwide died in 2012 from diseases related to ambient air pollution? That is nearly the population of the city of Los Angeles expiring every year from...
View ArticleCampaign Art: 805 million names with Zlatan Ibrahimović
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. There are around 805 million people facing hunger around the world,...
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Guide to Spring Meetings 2015 webcast events
It’s spring in Washington during a pivotal year in development. Thousands of government officials, journalists, civil society representatives, academics, and CEOs are arriving for the Spring Meetings...
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Nutrition and Agriculture: Bridging the Gap
Agriculture and nutrition share a common entry point: “food.” Food is a key outcome of agricultural activities, and, in turn, is a key input into good nutrition. Without agriculture there is little...
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A Food System that can feed everyone, everyday, everywhere
Whether you’re a food producer or consumer, and no matter what part of the world you live in, I’m sure we can agree: The world needs a food system that can feed everyone, everyday, everywhere. A food...
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The future of food: What chefs can bring to the table
Chef David Chang, left, with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the Future of Food event. © Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank How can everyone, everywhere, get enough nutritious food? A famous...
View ArticleFood for thought
Webcast Replay Appetizer of grasshoppers, seaweed soup, and as the main course, man-made burgers on the grill. Been twisting the nose? Yet we should get used to similar menus. According to UN...
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Can California’s earthquake preparedness experience help the Caribbean...
Anybody who has been through the California school system, like me, will immediately recognize the phrase, “Stop, Duck, and Cover” to mean one thing – EARTHQUAKE! On a lucky day, it would be a drill,...
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Five reasons to act now to #endpollution
Did you know that about 3.7 million people worldwide died in 2012 from diseases related to ambient air pollution? That is nearly the population of the city of Los Angeles expiring every year from...
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Five reasons to act now to #endpollution
Did you know that about 3.7 million people worldwide died in 2012 from diseases related to ambient air pollution? That is nearly the population of the city of Los Angeles expiring every year from...
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Working on water across borders: Spillover benefits for the SDGs
At the heels of the Sustainable Development Summit at the United Nations in New York this past weekend, an operations team from the World Bank’s Water Global Practice (GP) is meeting with international...
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Guide to 2015 Annual Meetings webcast events
The global economy, climate change, infrastructure, the food system – these are just a few of the hot topics that will be addressed in Lima, Peru, in the lead-up to the Annual Meetings of the World...
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Two young Indian girls blog about their interaction with Sri Mulyani Indrawati
“India has the maximum number of young people and these young people will enter the labor market in the next two decades.” These words by the World Bank’s Managing Director and Chief Operating...
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Madagascar: Expanding the bandwidth of the extreme poor
Photo: Laura B. Rawlings / World Bank It is 8 AM. The winter sun begins to appear over the gray-green mass of trees above the village of Tritriva in Madagascar’s central highlands. The courtyard of a...
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Better together: Toilets and nutrition
Studies show children grow taller and perform better on cognitive tests in communities where residents have access to improved sanitation and do not defecate in the open. Photo credit: World Bank...
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Living on the edge: Saving West Africa’s coastal assets
For generations, coastal communities in West Africa have lived off the land and sea, depending on the region’s abundant natural resources for their nutrition, health and economic activity. Coastal...
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Madagascar’s Path to Reducing Stunting and Improving Child Development Outcomes
Women with their children share a common meal at the community nutrition center in Soanierana (north east Madagascar) after a cooking demonstration focused on preparing nutrient rich food. Photo:...
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School nutrition programs are the first line of defense against diabetes
Children having meals in school in Ghana. Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank April 7th is World Health Day, a day to highlight emerging global health concerns. The focus this year is raising awareness...
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