Category: Food and Health

School food way to learn healthy eating
Experiences of 3 women from 3 countries assure this

March 20, 2025

Food & Climate School food may be the best way to teach new generations how to eat a healthy, balanced diet, and even how to produce it. This was demonstrated…

The H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza spread bringing losses of hundreds of millions of poultry
FAO: At least 300 new wild bird species have been affected by the disease since 2021

March 17, 2025

Food & Climate The spread of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, bringing losses of hundreds of millions of poultry worldwide with increased spillover into mammals, highlights the urgent need for…

Enriching subsidized wheat flour in Egypt with essential micronutrients
With support from the United Nations World Food Programme

March 10, 2025

Food & Climate The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade (MOSIT), the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), and the National Nutrition Institute (NNI), with support from the United Nations…

Why French farmers refuse EU-Mercosur trade agreement?
The detractors have concern about health risks and meat production

February 23, 2025

Food & Climate French farmers still refuse EU-Mercosur trade agreement, so, President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated his intention to block the agreement, but why this rejection. Macron is arguing that…

UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 talks resume next week
Zahedi: Investment needed to change course is at least $200 billion annually by 2030

February 20, 2025

Food & Climate The resumed session of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) will take place at the Food and…

The 31st Arab Fertilizers Association conference begins today in Cairo
Discusses regional and global food security challenges on the 50th anniversary of its establishment

February 18, 2025

Food & Climate The 31st Arab Fertilizers Association (afa) Conference began in Cairo (the capital of Egypt) today, Tuesday, February 18, 2025, and will continue until next Thursday. It was…

Food expiration date doesn’t mean it is inedible
Consumer misunderstandings cause many food products to end up in landfills

February 10, 2025

Food & Climate Not every food expiration date makes it inedible, that contrary to popular belief, expiration dates may not draw a hard line between edible and inedible. According to…

Egypt’s plastics industry awaits change

February 8, 2025

Food & Climate Egypt’s plastic industry is a component of GDP and plays a key role in the country’s economy, providing large number of jobs, as well as feeding many…

FAO: Pigs can genetic reassortment of avian influenza viruses
And creating new strains with pandemic potential

December 23, 2024

Food & Climate Much remains to be understood about the transmission of HPAI H5N1 among cattle, but it appears to be primarily driven by movements of infected cattle and potentially…

World Bank: women farmers are better than men at growing nutritious crops and irrigation
They account for only 20% of landowners

December 21, 2024

Food & Climate Experience has shown that women farmers are better than men at growing nutritious crops and irrigation management, yet they do not own a large percentage of land…