The African Biofortified Sorghum Project, a nine-member consortium that has been offered a Grand Challenges in Global Health grant of US$16.9 million, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

An $18 million grant from the U.S. Agency forInternational Development has been awarded to a research organization basedat the University of California, Davis,that focuses on international agricultural and environmental issues indeveloping countries.

More than 7 million have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999

Programme will solicit external research projects.

Despite a good harvest, 7.2 million Ethiopians still require assistance to meet minimum food requirements in 2004, compared with 13.2 million in 2003, according to a joint report released this week by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

Home brewing has a centuries-long tradition in Germany, was regulated by the granting of brewing rights, temporarily banned due to the risk of fire and finally restricted by the Beer Tax Act, which even in 1986 prohibited the distribution of recipes in $ 11. However, this passage was deleted in the ...

Campylobacter in poultry meat is among the most often considered by the FAO/WHO, for food-related pathogenic combinations. The majority of campylobacterioses is attributed to the consumption of poultry meat. The ubiquitous presence of the bacteria in our environment makes their circumventions...

Objective: To test a culturally tailored obesity prevention intervention in low-income, minority preschool age children. Design: A three-group clustered randomised controlled trial. Setting: Twelve Head Start centres were randomly assigned to a centre-based intervention, a combined centre- and...

This paper discusses some legal aspects concerning the German Wine Fund.

The Cuban sugar industry, together with its modernization and growing program, have as target to provide response to growing environmental laws every day, especially if we there it is considered the tourism growing and its international requirements. Current Cuban legislation is an invaluable tool...