South African, Egyptian appointed to steer committee on food security and nutrition
Written by Kevin Wafula   
Friday, 03 September 2010
Sheryl Lee Hendriks of South Africa and Mona Mehrez Aly (Egypt) are among 15 experts appointed by Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to form the Steering Committee that will lead its new advisory body, the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). The move is part of an ongoing reform of the international governance of food security and nutrition. 
 
Experts warn Nigeria would hurt under climate change
Written by Mainasara Adeleke   
Friday, 03 September 2010

Climate change is going to negatively impact Nigeria in terms of food supply, health and economy, but the sad thing is that the country is not prepared in any way to tackle its impact, an environmental expert has said.

 
Annan Receives Borlaug Medallion for Global Leadership in Africa Food Security
Written by Adu Domfey   
Friday, 03 September 2010

The World Food Prize Foundation Thursday awarded former UN Secretary-General Mr Kofi A Annan the Borlaug Medallion in recognition of his global leadership and commitment to improving food security in Africa.

 
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Members of the Kenya Associaition of Physicians were told yesterday that there was need for them to give an all-round and cost effective management services to patients.

MIGRATORY WATERBIRDOver 150 representatives of government and nongovernmental organisations as well as waterbird experts from 80 countries will meet in Madagascar from the September 15-19 to discuss urgent conservation responses necessary to reverse the declines of many migratory waterbird species along the African-Eurasian Flyways.

UK government has announced a £6 billion on improving health systems and services, in poor countries up to 2015 while an African NGO blasts Japan’s lackdaisaical approach on the AIDS issue in Africa.

malarir plateletCanadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that may let doctors detect earlier two crippling malaria variations – one that develops in the placenta of pregnant women affecting countless unborn children, the other, cerebral malaria, that develops in the brain's blood vessels – malaria's most deadly form.

Nigeria-born and internationally renowned genetic epidemiologist Charles N. Rotimi is to head a newly established US’s National Institutes of Health Intramural Center for Genomics and Health Disparities (NICGHD) announced last week.

Drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation with recent developments in the physics. According to two papers published Thursday on Plasma Medicine in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and unfailing bactericidal cocktails.

Africa’s indigenous vegetables that have been abandoned in favour of exotic ones are now regaining popularity on the dining tables and restaurants across East Africa.

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