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Food prices and market volatility

Since the second half of 2010, market prices of agricultural commodities have started to grow very quickly: during the period between July 2010 and February 2011, the FAO Food Price Ind...

Food Security: Challenges and Outlook

According to recent FAO estimates, today there are about 925 million people who suffer from hunger in the world. In 2010, this number dropped slightly by 98 million people, with respe...

Measuring people’s well-being: the BCFN Index

The discussion about the need to broaden the horizon of indicators for the governance of society and the economy, in particular for the measurement of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ...

The challenges of Food Security

In the light of the FAO data, according to which over a billion people suffer from hunger, access to food is one of the most significant and important challenges that the world's popula...

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Obesity and malnutrition co-exist in children

Every year 36 million people die of starvation in some parts of the planet, while in some other areas one person out of ten is obese. The implication is that we seem not to care about the future. This was the main theme of the workshop on “The importance of healthy eating for children”, on the occasion of the 3rd International Forum on Nutrition which has been organized by Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition. 

Eating properly can cut health care costs

It is well-known that a healthy, balanced diet can help prevent and even treat many diseases.

The well-being of a Nation is not just a matter of GDP

The economic progress of a country and the well-being of its citizens are not just a matter of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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“The real challenge is to define new rules for those markets that cannot be governed by the approaches and instruments .....

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QUICK FACTSQUICK FACTS

Deficiencies of vitamin A, contained in vegetables and grains, cause 800,000 deaths a year among women and children (source: World Food Programme).

In Asia e America Latina il numero di persone malnutrite è diminuito negli ultimi 15 anni, rispettivamente del -3% e del -14%.

In Africa, 217 million people are malnourished.

At the world level, 53% of deaths of children under 5 years of age are linked to malnutrition (source: The World Food Programme).

The highest number of malnourished people lives in Asia (566.2 million), equal to twice the number of those who live in Africa (217 million).

98% of the people who suffer from hunger are located in developing countries.



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