Fight for Food

Partnership for food safety education--"Fight BAC!".

The Fight for Fluoridation

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF FISHES. Volume 2, BEHAVIOR. Margaret E. Brown, Ed. New York, Academic Press Inc., 1957. xi, 526 pp. $14.00. The second volume of the series Physiology of Fishes deals with a wide variety of subjects under the common heading of Behavior. This misleading title is unfortunate, but the contents are a very pleasant surprise. Included are chapters dealing with: nerve system (central...

The fight for family planning

AUDREY LEATHARD, The fight for family planning, London, Macmillan, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 293, illus., £15.00. "The subject is obscene: no lady would dream of alluding to it in mixed society", George Bernard Shaw told Marie Stopes after she had lost her libel action against Dr. Halliday Sutherland in the House of Lords. Fifty years later, in 1974, free birth control for all became available unde...

Local Food Resources to Fight Children Malnutrition and Infectious Diseases in Mozambique

Pediatric malnutrition is defined by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition as “an imbalance between nutrient requirements and intake that results in cumulative deficits of energy, protein or micronutrients that may negatively affect growth, development and other relevant outcomes” [1]. It represents a serious public health issue lin...

Biosecurity and Yield Improvement Technologies Are Strategic Complements in the Fight against Food Insecurity

The delivery of food security via continued crop yield improvement alone is not an effective food security strategy, and must be supported by pre- and post-border biosecurity policies to guard against perverse outcomes. In the wake of the green revolution, yield gains have been in steady decline, while post-harvest crop losses have increased as a result of insufficiently resourced and uncoordin...