What Nourished is on now, 24th January’17

After a break in readings, I haven’t quite succeeded in catching up with different questions that I think are worth sharing:

This year’s Radi-Aid Awards – an annually event created by the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH). Have a look at one of the organization’s videos aimed at bringing down an oversimplified image that can be a direct hindrance to development in a country.

You can visit their website for more videos that challenge a tendency in many aid organizations’ charity campaigns to portray impoverished population as passive recipients of help.

I failed completely at keeping up with all the outcomes for the Monsanto Tribunal hearings and People’s Assembly earlier in October, but fortunately have interventions and interviews to consult.

Found out that the right to food, stated in article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now, not only being ommited in practice but also on paper. This report  by Jose Luis Vivero Pol and Claudio Shuftan tells us how there is No right to food and nutrition in the SDGs.

Also, a mention in a Spanish newspaper lead me to this article about a study based on examination of white blood cells taken from the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia who survived severe hunger in 1922 and 1923. The results suggest a link between telomere shrinking (chromosome alteration thought to affect aging and lifespan)  through generations and severe hunger and sustained undernourishment. You can find the study published in the November 2016 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.