edible plants, food production, malnutrition, world hunger

Tasmanian Scientist Cataloging Every Edible Plant in the World

Bruce French is an agricultural scientist from Tasmania who has dedicated his life to a very unique purpose — to catalog all the edible plants in the world. French believes that this will help solve global hunger. Cataloging plants Five decades ago when French was teaching in Papua New Guinea, his students remarked that they ...

Raven Montmorency

Three children living in poverty.

Malnutrition Is Putting 600,000 Young Lives at Risk in Afghanistan

War is not the only hazard to the lives of Afghan children. Malnutrition is also claiming thousands of lives every day. Unfortunately, UNICEF is not in a position to combat it due to a lack of funds. Children at stake The UN Children’s Fund estimates that of the 2 million Afghan children suffering from acute ...

Max Lu

A malnourished Afghan child.