Feb 2, 2020 In the News Under-nutrition and obesity: two sides of the same coin? (Unimondo) Nutrition Unimondo reported on a study published in the Lancet. According to the study, “A new approach must be urgently defined to simultaneously reverse under-nutrition and obesity, because these problems are increasingly interconnected due […]

As China races to contain the Wuhan coronavirus, a feat of design and engineering has unfolded at the outbreak’s epicenter: A hospital built in just 10 days.

Scrap bats. It may not have been the flying mammals, after all, that incubated the deadly new coronavirus that has already infected tens of thousands of people and caused hundreds of deaths in China and even outside the country. A team of Chinese scientists say it seems possible that pangolins […]

Life on Earth as we have known it is hurtling towards death by a thousand cuts: large-scale deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, plastic pollution. Each crisis poses grave dangers, yet it is in combination that they pose a truly existential threat, leading scientists have warned. Overlapping environmental crises could reinforce […]

Jan 24, 2020 Press Release India Securing the Harvest: A Forum on Improved Grain Storage for Smallholder Agriculture Agriculture Production Food Safety According to the FAO, each year about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers. Postharvest losses not only […]