Posts Tagged ‘food security’

Reading List 8/23/2010

August 23rd, 2010

Happy Monday readers! A new list of reads for your reading pleasure. Today we’re reading about one man’s dedication to eliminating onchocerciasis within his community in Uganda, how intestinal worms could be used as a treatment for Crohn’s disease, the Public Library of Science’s launch of the new open-access journal on NTDs, and a few of the latest articles on the flooding disaster in Pakistan.

Ugandan Man Helps Rid His Community of Onchocerciasis, Carter Center
Can Intestinal Parasites Help Crohn’s Disease?, Mary Desaulniers, AutoImmuneDisease
PLoS ONE is launched by the Public Library of Science, Bio-Medicine
Pakistan flood donations top $26m, The Press Association
Struggle for food as Pakistan floods worsen, Sally Sara, ABC News

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Big Announcement by Bill Gates and Tim Geithner

April 22nd, 2010

We’re watching this announcement live here

Bill Gates and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are announcing the launch of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program– “a new fund to help the world’s poorest farmers grow more food and earn more than they do now so they can lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.”

Read their piece in the Wall Street Journal here

We will repost the recorded video when it becomes available!

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