In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale — a premise supported by the often observed phenomenon that staple cereal yields decline as the scale of production increases.
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Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Triumph
Afghan Women’s Writing Project | Triumph.
We
Women
Will
Win
Together
Together
We
Are
The
Perfume
In every flower
We
Grow
Stars
On
Earth
Illumine
The
World
With smiles
Together,
Together
Within
Us
Silence
Sleeps
Happiness
Awakens
Together,
We
Build
Mountains
Together
Together
We
Women
Will
Win
By Norwan
ABOUT SAIL for SCHOOLS – safe water for the world’s children
ABOUT. Sail for Schools is a learning adventure led by world record holder and safe water activist, Katie Spotz, to educate and inspire students across America, Canada, and the UK. Students are challenged to help 100,000 students gain access to safe water and raise $1 million for schools-based water projects. The key message is that every student can make a difference for another student in need of safe drinking water and that extraordinary achievements are within everyoneʼs grasp.
Food travels everywhere these days – keep track here – She does an excellent job!
Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues. The live links will take you directly to the official recall notices and company news releases that contain detailed information for each recall and alert.
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United States
- Allergy Alert:Publix Super Markets recalls Publix Premium Frozen Tempura Shrimp, because the dipping sauce packet included with the product contains undeclared soy.
- Food Safety Recall: Mondelēz Global LLC recalls Green…
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Why Handwashing? | The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW)
Here is why: Human feces are the main source of diarrheal pathogens. They are the source of shigellosis, typhoid, cholera, all other common endemic gastro-enteric infections and some respiratory infections such as influenza and pneumonia. A single gram of human feces can contain 10 million viruses and one million bacteria.
These pathogens are passed from an infected host to a new one via various routes but all of these illnesses emanate from feces. Removing excreta and cleaning hands with soap after contact with fecal material –from using the toilet or cleaning a child – prevents the transmission of the bacteria, viruses and protozoa that cause diarrheal diseases.
Other measures (food handling, water purification, and fly control) have an impact on these diseases as well, but sanitation and handwashing provide the necessary protection against fecal contact. They start by creating initial barriers to fecal pathogens from reaching the domestic environment. Handwashing with soap stops the transmission of disease agents and so can significantly reduce diarrhea and respiratory infections, and may impact skin and eye infections.
Research shows that children living in households exposed to handwashing promotion and soap had half the diarrheal rates of children living in control neighborhoods. Because handwashing can prevent the transmission of a variety of pathogens, it may be more effective than any single vaccine. Promoted on a wide enough scale, handwashing with soap can be thought of as a “do-it-yourself” vaccine. Ingraining the habit of handwashing could save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention.
via Why Handwashing? | The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW).
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A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
She was sitting in the doctor’s clinic waiting. Who knew it’d take that long… and who knew anyone could be that nervous. She was transfixed by the tiles in front of her. She never thought she’d be in this situation. It had been three years.
The doctor called her name and she slowly walked the few steps to the door where she knew her life might change in a heartbeat. She sat down with her husband by her side. She grabbed his hand. She had never been this afraid. Not when her brother was killed. Not when she got the news that her father had died, back when she was a new nineteen year old bride.
She remembered that day two weeks prior when her sons nagged her head off to go to a hospital and do a test she was putting off for three years now. She remembered how…
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“Wait … a fresh one is coming up,” he would say, pointing to the chain ascending from his ovens in the basement. I did not understand why he would not sell me an un-fresh exemplar of his unique, old-fashioned product. Sometimes he made me wait ten minutes, until the bread met his expectation. Then it was “zatar? zatar extra?” He couldn’t believe that we liked the taste of the bread undusted with spice.
Yum!
One of the recurrent questions asked among moms is : what food to give to kids to school!
We all want them to have a decent snack or lunch, packed with healthy and nutritious vitamins. But we all know how tedious it is sometimes to be creative and diverse and to keep the kids enjoying their home packed meal.
So here is some inspiration from martha stewart, parent magazine, sif orellana and superhealthykids!
Wouldn’t you love to eat those?
For more inspiration got to Superhealthykids and browse…
Martha Stewart has inspiring and healthy ideas too,
and what about these sushi like chicken wraps?
or these cheese and ham kebabs?
or My newly found favourite danish food writer, Sif Orellana‘s chicken ball kebab?
Bottom line; it is more or less the same ingredients but combined in new funky and delicious ways….
enjoy and happy kids lunching!




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