Not long ago, it was common for children under the age of 5 to receive treatment for severe malnutrition in this Ethiopian community. Today, a community-based nutrition programme is keeping children strong and healthy, and families resilient.

Weighing children monthly is one of the pillars of the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s Community Based Nutrition Programme (CBN), which is designed to prevent malnutrition by building the resilience of communities to shocks such as food insecurity.

Members of the health development army are women selected from the community to assist health extension workers to deliver their integrated health, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation services in the rural community. Each woman is responsible for five families.

According to the zone health office, over the past three years, malnutrition rates have dropped from 20 per cent to 5 per cent, and severe malnutrition rates have dropped from 5 per cent to about 1 per cent.

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Here is a list of companies who make many or even the majority of all their products without GMOs. This list is provided courtesy of the Non-GMO Project.

365

479 Degrees

A. Vogel

Adams Vegetable Oils

Agrana

Agricor Inc.

Ah!Laska

Alexia

Alter Ego

Alverado Street Bakery

Amande

Amelia

Among Friend’s

Amy’s Kitchen

Andalou Naturals

Angie’s Artisan Treats

Annie’s

Ariven Planet

Arrowhead Mills

Artisan Bistro

Artisan Bistro Home Direct

Atlantic Organic

Atlantic Rose

Attune Foods

Autumn Sky wild

Back to Nature

Bainter Extra Virgin Sunfllower Oil

Bakery On Main

Barbara’s

Barlean’s Organic Oils

Barnana

Barney Butter

Basic Food Flavors, Inc.

Beach Bum Foods

Beanfields

Beanitos

Bearitos

Berlin Natural Bakery

Better Bean

BetterStevia

Bhakti Chai

Biad Chili Products

Bites of Bliss

Blue Diamond

Blue Print

Bold Organics

Bora Bora

Boulder Canyon Natural Foods

Brad’s Leafy Kale

Brad’s Raw for Paws

Brad’s Raw Chips

Brad’s Raw Crackers

Brad’s Raw Onion Rings

Braga Organic Farms

Bragg

Brand Aromatics

Bridgewell Resources

Bubbies

Blue Natural

Cabo Chips

Cadia

Cal-Organic Farms

Cafia Farms

California Olive Ranch

Canfo Natural Products

Canyon Bakehouse

Cape Cod Select

Catania

Cave Chick

Cedar’s

Central Market Organics

Chappaqua Crunch Granola

Cheweco Organics

Chez Marie, Inc.

ChiaRezza! OMG Foods Inc

Choice Organic Teas

Chosen Foods

CHS Oilseed Processing

Chunks O’ Fruti

Ciao Bella Gelato

Ciranda

CleanVia

Coconut Secret

Cocozia

Cool Cups

Coral LLC

Country Choice Organic

Crispy Cat

Crofters

cruncha ma•me

Crunch Master

Curtie’s Juice

Dave’s Gourmet

David’s Unforgettables

Deli-catessen

Della

Desert Essence

Doctor in the Kitchen

Doctor Kracker

Dr. Arenander’s BrainGain & Oral Care

Dr. Bronner’s Magic

Dream

Drew’s LLC

Dulsweet

Earth Balance

Earth’s Best

EatPastry

Eatsmart

EcoTeas

Edazen

Eden

Edward & Sons

Eighth Wonder

Emerald Cove

Emile Noel

Emmy’s Organics

Emperor’s Kitchen

Endangered Species Chocolate

Ener-G Foods

Engine 2

Enjoy Life Foods

Envirokidz

EO

Erewhon

Essential Living Foods, Inc

Everyday Superfoods

Fairfield Specialty Eggs

Familia

FanciFood

Fantastic World Foods

Farm to Table Foods

Farmer’s Market

Farmhouse Culture

Field Day

Field Roast Grain Meat Company

Fillmore Farms

Fiordifrutta

Flamous Organics

Flax USA

Flora

Follow Your Heart

Freekeh Foods

Freekehlicious

Freeline Organic Foods

Fresh & Easy

Frey

Frontier

Froovie

Fruit Bliss

Fruit Chia

Fry Group Foods

Fungi Perfecti, LLC

Funky Monkey Snacks

Garden Bar

Garden of Eatin’

Garden of Life

gimMe

Gin Gins

Gingras XO

Giving Nature

GL Soybeans

Global River

GlucoLift

Gluten Free Pantry by Glutino

Glutino

Gnu Foods

Go Raw

Golazo

GoMacro, Inc

Good Health Natural Foods

Good Karma

GoodBelly

GoOrganic/GoNaturally

GoPicnic

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Grain Place Foods

Grains of Wellness

Green Gem

Green Island Rice

Green Mountain Gringo

Green Mustache

Grimmway Farms

Growing Naturals

Guayaki

Guiltless Gourmet

Haig’s Delicacies

Haiku

Hail Merry

Hapi Foods Group Inc.

Happy Baby Pouches

HappyTot

Harvest Bay

Haute Cuisine

Health is Wealth

Health Warrior

Heavenly Organics

Herbal Zap

High Country Kombucha

Hiland Naturals

Hilary’s Eat Well

Himalania

HimalaRose

HimalaSalt

Hodgson Mill

Hol-Grain

Home Appetit

HomeFree

House Foods

Houweling’s Tomatoes

Ian’s

Imagine

Immaculate Baking

Immortality Alchemy

Imperial Gourmet

Indianlife

Intiyan

It Tastes Raaw

Jaali Bean

JaynRoss Creations LLC

Jeff’s Naturals

Jessica’s Natural Foods

Jolly Llama

JustFruit

Kamut

Keller Crafted Meats

Kettle Foods

Kettlepop

Kiji

KIND Healthy Snacks

Kiwa

Konriko

Koyo

Kur Organic Superfoods

La Reina

La Spagnola

La Tolteca

La Tourangelle

Lafiya Foods

Lassens

Laughing Giraffe Organics

Laurel Hill

Lekithos

LesserEvil

Let’s Do

Licious Organics

Lillabee Allergy Friendly Baking

Little Duck Organics

livingNOW gluten-free

Loeb’s

Louts Foods

Lucy’s

Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss

Lundberg Family Farms

Mac-n-Mo’s

Made in Nature

Madhava

Mamma Chia

Manitoba Harvest

Marconi Naturals

Maria & Ricardo

Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce

Mariner Biscuit Company

Martha’s All Natural

Marukan

Marukome USA

Mary’s Chicken

Mary’s Gone Crackers

Mary’s Little Garden

Mary’s Organic Chicken

Mary’s Organic Turkey

Mary’s Pasture Raised Chicken

Maui Maid

Mediterranean Organic

Mediterranean Snacks

MegaFood

Melt Organic

Metabolic Response Modifiers (MRM)

Mighty Mustard

Mighty Rice

Mighty-O Donuts

Mindful Meats

Minsa

Minsley

Miracle Noodle

Miso Master

Modesto WholeSoy Co.

Momo’s

Montana Specialty Mills, LLC

Mori-Nu

Mt Vikos

Muesli Munch

Multiple Organics

MXO GLOBAL INC.

My Chi Delights

Naked Coconuts

Naosap Harvest

Napa Valley Naturals

Nasoya

Nathan’s

Native Forest Distributed by Edward & Sons

Natural Directions

Natural Habitats

Natural Nectar

Natural Sea

Natural Tides

Natural Vitality

Naturally Splendid Enterprises Ltd

Nature Built

Nature Fed

Nature Way

Nature’s Express

Nature’s Path

Navitas Naturals

Nejaime’s

Nest Fresh

New Chapter

New England Naturals

New Organics

New York Superfoods

Nexcel Natural Ingredients

Nexcel Soy

Niagara Natural

NibMor

Nordic Naturals

North Coast

NOW Foods

NOW Healthy Foods

NOW Real Food

NOW Real Tea

Nu Life Market

Numi Organic Tea

Nummy Tum Tum

NurturMe

Nutiva

Nutrigold®

Nuts About Granola

Oh Baby Foods

Old Wessex

Oleicus/Oleico

Once Again

One Degree Organic Foods

One World

Organic Baby

Organic Planet

Organic Valley

Organicville

Oriya Organics

Ozery Bakery

Pacific Natural Foods

Pacific Northwest Farmers

Paisley Tea Co

Palo Root Tea

Pampas Rice / Organic Latin

Pan De Oro

Pascha

Pastorelli Food Products Inc

Peace Cereal

PEACOCK

Peanut Butter & Co.

Peeled Snacks

Peggy’s Premium

PJ’s Organics

Planet Rice

Plum Organics

Popcorn, Indiana

Popcornopolis

Powbab

President’s Choice

PROBAR

PuraSource

Pure

Pure Country Pork

Pure Eire

Purely Decadent

Purely Elizabeth

Pyure Brands

Q.bel

Qrunch Foods

Quinn Popcorn

R.W. Knudsen

Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems

Rapunzel

RAU

Red Hat Co-operative Ltd

Reese

Revive

RiceSelect

Righteously Raw

Rigoni di Asiago Honey

Rishi Tea

Rising Moon Organics

Risodipasta

Rivara

ROBE and Riverina Natural Oils LLC

Roots Route 11

Royal Hawaiian Orchards

Rumiano Family Cheese

Runa

Ruth’s Foods

RW Garcia

Sacha

Saffron Road

Sage V Foods

Sainthood Herbs

Salba Smart

Sally’s Smart Foods

Salute Santé!

Sambazon

San-J

Santa Cruz Organic

Scratch and Peck

SeaSnax

Secret Squirrel

Seven Stars Farm

Sharkies

Shortstacks

Silk

Silver Hills Sprouted Bakery

Simple Origins

Simply Soy Yogurt

Simply Suzanne

Sir Kensington’s

SK Food

Skout

Snyder’s of Hanover

So Delicious Dairy Free

Sol Cuisine

Somersault Snack Co.

Sophie’s Kitchen

Source

Soyatoo

Spectrum

Spectrum Ingredients

Spicely

Squarebar

Stahlbush Island Farms

Stahlbush Island Farms Ingredients

Stark Sisters Granola

Stash Teas

Stiebrs Farms Go-Organic Eggs

Stone Buhr Flour Company

Straus Family Creamery

Stretch Island Fruit Co

Suja Juice

Sun Cups

SunE900

Sunfood Superfoods

SunRidge Farms

Sunset

Sunset Kidz

Sunshine Burger

Superberries

Surf Sweets

Sushi Sonic

Sweet Sass Foods

Sweet Tree

Sweet Leaf

TAMBOR

Taste of Nature

Tasty Brand

TeaPops

That’s It.

The Better Chip

The Chia Co

The Fresh Market

The Ginger People

The Pure Wraps

The Republic of Tea

The Scoular Company

The Simply Bar

The Solio Family

Theo Chocolate

Third Street, Inc.

Three Farmers

Tiny But Might

TOMMYS

Tonnino

Trace Minerals Research

Traditional Medicinals

Tree of Life

Tropical Traditions

Tru Joy Sweets

truRoots

truwhip

Turtle Island Foods

Two Leaves Tea Company

Two Moms in the Raw

TwoFold

Udi’s

Union Market

Upfront Foods

Van’s Natural Foods

Vegga

Veggie-Go’s

Venus

VerMints

Veronica Foods

Viana

Victoria

Vigilant Eats

VitaV

Viterra

Watts Brothers

Way Better Snacks

Wayfare

Weetabix

Western Foods

WestSoy

Whole Alternatives

Whole Earth

Whole Harvest

Whole Pantry

Wholesome Chow

Wholesome Sweeteners

WholeSoy & Co.

Wild Veggie

Wildbrine

Wildwood

Willamette Valley

Wingfoot

Wisdom of the Ancients

Woodstock

XO Baking Co.

Yamasa

Yoga

Yogavivie

Zema’s Madhouse Foods

Ziggy Marley Coco’Mon

Ziggy Marley Hemp Rules

Zing Bars

Zulka

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Before the latest G8 meeting at the start of June, several summits aimed at addressing the prevalence of malnutrition were held in London, culminating in the signing of the Nutrition for Growth Compact. However, agreements on a heightened role for private businesses and the use of genetically modified crops have proven to be more controversial, and civil society groups have been vocal in their condemnation – referring to some of the measures a “new wave of colonialism”.

Countries joining the New Alliance will be expected to facilitate access to land (including communally held land), and enact intellectual property laws around seed which will criminalise age-old agricultural practices among Africa’s peasant farmers, including the saving and sharing of seed. The targets of the biotech industry (and their grovelling politician-allies) are the staple crops that people depend on, so that there would be no escaping them. Crops genetically engineered either for nutrition reasons or otherwise pose a wide range of threats – including to biodiversity.

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If you are a vegan or vegetarian with a secret stash of candy, jelly beans or dark chocolate, join the club. A constant craving for carbs with occasional headaches, muscle or joint pain may be due to a slight deficiency of protein.

The symptoms of a severe protein deficiency include:

• Edema (swelling)
• Thinning brittle hair and/or hair loss
• Ridges in finger and toe nails
• Skin rashes; dry skin
• Weakness
• Constant Fatigue
• Muscle soreness and cramps
• Slow healing
• Skin ulcers
• Sleep issues
• Frequent headache
• Nausea
• Fainting
• Depression/anxiety

Sooo, what can we do to reverse this condition? Carnivores and omnivores simply chow down on anything that moves. Vegans and vegetarians have a slightly more complicated problem, but one that’s nonetheless manageable. Here’s a list of protein sources found in Kingdom Plantae:

• Seeds, sprouted
• Nuts
• Beans
• Lentils
• Whole grains (in order from highest to lowest protein content): Wheat, amaranth, oats, rye, triticale, teff, spelt, wild rice, barley, buckwheat, quinoa, millet, sorghum, corn, rice.
• Soy
• Peas
• Peanuts
• Spinach
• Potato
• Sweet potato
• Algae
• Seaweed

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NASA just threw a $125,000, six-month grant at a project by Anjan Contractor, a mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation in Austin to develop a working prototype of his proposed universal food synthesizer.

The feedstocks for this device, including all the carbs, proteins, macro, and micro nutrients are in powder form. Does placing 3D food printers in households allow a world population, that’s on its way to an estimated nine billion people by 2040, to synthesize healthy meals from powder-filled cartridges? Such dehydrated food stocks would have long shelf lives.

In light of all this it would seem the Star Trek food replicators are really not all that far off. The fictional devices featured in that series were capable of fiddling with reality at the subatomic level to reproduce pretty much anything edible. Also not far off is the Mission to Mars. 78,000 people recently applied for Mars One. The ETA for the first colonists on that mission is just ten years from now in 2023. How would you pack for that little trek?

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First, they asked Monsanto what their ideal future looked like in fifteen to twenty years. Monsanto executives described a world with 100 percent of all commercial seeds genetically modified and patented. Anderson Consulting then worked backwards from that goal, and developed the strategy and tactics to achieve it. They presented Monsanto with the steps and procedures needed to obtain a place of industry dominance in a world in which natural seeds were virtually extinct.
Integral to the plan was Monsanto’s influence in government, whose role was to promote the technology worldwide and to help get the foods into the marketplace quickly, before resistance could get in the way. A biotech consultant later said, “The hope of the industry is that over time, the market is so flooded that there’s nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender.”
The anticipated pace of conquest was revealed by a conference speaker from another biotech company. He showed graphs projecting the year-by-year decrease of natural seeds, estimating that in five years, about 95 percent of all seeds would be genetically modified.
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When a farmer grows Monsanto’s genetically modified soybean seeds, has he simply “used” the seed to create a crop to sell, or has he “made” untold replicas of Monsanto’s invention that remain subject to the company’s restrictions? The question is now headed to the United States Supreme Court.

“The current intellectual property environment of transgenic crops has spurred the privatization and concentration of the world’s seed supply,” said a brief filed by the Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds, groups that have been highly critical of Monsanto and genetically modified crops. “Market concentration has resulted in 10 multinational corporations holding approximately two-thirds (65%) of commercial seed for major crops, reducing choice and innovation, and increasing prices for the American farmer.”

The brief asks the court to end the practice of allowing corporations to place conditions on the sale of its seed and to reject an “end-run around patent exhaustion” for regeneration. “Farming is using seeds, not constructing or manufacturing seeds,” the brief states.

Monsanto, alarmed at the possibilities of what the Supreme Court might do, has circled the wagons.

The Biotechnology Industry Organization warns that advancements in agricultural, medical and environmental research “depend critically on a strong, stable and nationally uniform system of patent rights and protections.”

Universities, economists, intellectual property experts and seed companies have weighed in on Monsanto’s behalf.

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The problem with trickle-down economics is that evaporation occurs at twice the rate of flow. — Robert H. Kalk

To address the challenges related to malnutrition in Namibia, Prime Minister Nahas Angula has established the Namibia Alliance for Improved Nutrition (NAFIN), a multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder partnership aimed at ensuring that concerted, coordinated and collaborative efforts by the government and partners lead to a reduction and eventual elimination of malnutrition and improved food security in Namibia.
Until 2010, there was only one trained nutrition professional working for the Namibian government. Currently, there is no stand-alone nutrition course at the tertiary institutions in Namibia, with nutrition integrated only as a component of the nursing degree and the Masters in Public Health at the University of Namibia in the School of Nursing and Public Health.
The revised Nutrition and Food Security Policy will guide government and its partners in delivering evidence-based and cost-effective food and nutrition interventions.
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As if it’s not enough work to guard against genetically modified organisms invading your seed-stocks and fields. Now you have to defend against being sued by the source of the malevolent invaders.
Eighty-three family farmers, small and family owned seed businesses, and agricultural organizations challenging Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified seed recently filed papers in federal court defending their right to seek legal protection from the threat of being sued by Monsanto for patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed. The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) represents the plaintiffs in the suit, titled Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association (OSGATA), et al. v. Monsanto and pending in the Southern District of New York.
“The money and political power of Wall Street has stolen America’s food system, bankrupted our farmers and ranchers, mined our soils, polluted our environment, wasted our precious water, and left us with expensive industrially produced food that makes us sick,” said Mike Callicrate who owns an independent cattle feedlot and a direct-to-consumer beef operation.
The Complaint sums up the organic farmer’s plight this way: As nontransgenic seed farmers and seed sellers, Plaintiffs already have to deal with the constant threat of transgenic seed contamination that could destroy their chosen livelihood. They should not also have to live with the threat of being sued for patent infringement should that travesty come to pass.
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