Will the globe’s population outgrow the ability to provide enough food for everyone? Denise Juvane, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Mozambique now living in England, examines two schools of thought on the pressing issue of food security. Whilst the prevailing argument is that scarcity of resources is an effect of luxurious lifestyles and is an end …

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Nutrition and health are inter-related, writes Lyn-Marie Blackman, 28, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Barbados, who says informed and careful food choices can have far-reaching benefit. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”-Hippocrates As long as mankind been on the earth we have always had the innate desire for food. Across the globe …

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Fast food seems like a necessary convenience for the busy student, but Omer Fayshal Pavel, 22, a Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh, argues that consistently making the wrong food choices can have long term and devastating impact. There is a proverb in Bangladesh: “If you want to reach one’s heart, then convince him with his …

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Cultural ideas around food are subject to change, thanks to a fast-moving globalised world. But as Ashley Foster-Estwick, 25, a Correspondent from Barbados explains, disrupting old food cultures can leave populations at risk with poor health and unmet needs. Culture is usually defined as the ideas and attitudes that form the habits of a particular sect …

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Malnutrition is defined as undernourishment as well as over-nutrition that may lead to obesity and non-communicable diseases, writes Monica Islam, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Dhaka in Bangladesh. The UN has declared a Decade of Action on what has been called “the silent development crisis”.  Since malnutrition is a pervasive multi-sectoral issue, it is described …

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Fast food is a growing presence among food options, but Ashley Foster-Estwick, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Barbados, raises concerns about what it means for health and nutritional literacy. It is fast, processed, reasonably priced and often times delicious. If it takes you a little longer to figure out the answer to my opening line, …

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Growing food at home has benefits beyond providing nutritious food, writes Bhagya Wijayawardane, 28, a Correspondent from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She’s working to bring home gardens to marginalised urban residents. As part of the local effort to fight food insecurity, eliminate vitamin A deficiency and nutritional blindness, and to improve physical growth among school children …

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The concept of local food has a new meaning for nutrition and the economy, writes Bhagya Wijayawardane, 29, a Correspondent from Colombo, Sri Lanka, who advocates “food forests” for urban and rural dwellers. Once I visited the lovely forest of Belipola in the lush hills of Sri Lanka’s Uva Province, which also happens to be …

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