How Little Red Dots Could Help Women and Babies Stay Healthy
In India, the bindi has also become popular among women of all ages, as a beauty mark. And it comes in all colors, shapes and sizes. Now an initiative called Life Saving Dot is trying use bindis to deliver an essential micronutrient to women who might not be getting enough. The organization has come up with a way to coat the back of bindis with iodine.
How Cell Phones Can Help End World Hunger
Forget satellites, drones or other high-tech innovations. For small-scale farmers across the globe, a simple cell phone has become one of the most powerful tools for boosting one’s harvest and, along with it, his or her family’s and community’s food supply. Farmers are using cellular technology to share crucial information about weather, rainfall, and market demand, along with seed prices, empowering millions of them to grow more food at a time when the world needs it most.
Cracking the Coconut: 4 Ways to Improve Financial Security for Smallholder Farmers
In less than 10 years, demand for coconut products has skyrocketed. The coconut water industry, for example, is now worth more than $1 billion. Yet very little of the rewards have trickled down to smallholder farmers in coconut producing countries. Grameen Foundation believes focusing on four key areas will help coconut farmers achieve household resiliency and greater economic security.
How One Small Loudoun Nonprofit Hopes to Help Save the Honeybee
The plight of the threatened honeybee was made a national priority last month when President Obama announced the first National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators. In Washington, a small nonprofit has been working steadily toward the same goal as it tries to cultivate a genetic line of honeybees that is specifically suited for survival in the metropolitan region and beyond.
7 Challenges the Agriculture Sector Must Address to Unleash Its Data Revolution
From filling data gaps —such as identifying the causes of food loss — to helping farmers with weather or market updates, to providing government agencies with key information regarding crop diseases, open data holds the promise of providing many solutions to problems related to food systems. Here are seven main ways enthusiasts and specialists can help unleash the data revolution in the agriculture sector.
Global Horticultural Knowledge Bank Emphasizes Farmer-Led Innovations
Valuable specialty crops are key to both the economic progress of developing countries and the nutrition of local populations. However, specialty crops are also knowledge-intensive. The newly created Global Horticulture Knowledge Bank is collaborating with extension and development workers in low-income nations to transfer relevant research and technology to farmers.