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Evidence is emerging that foodborne illness accounts for a staggering health burden in developing countries. However, standard approaches used by developed country governments to ensure food safety...

Health, biodiversity, sustainable food and agriculture, circular economy - how can microbiome innovations help to solve grand societal challenges?

How can we use marine microorganisms to improve our health?

Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit. The brief discusses the link between global food security and healthy people, animals, plants...

Over recent decades, South Asia has made remarkable progress in improving the health of mothers and children. But the year 2020 brought a great shock to South Asia...

At the GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference, the GLF community came together and encouraged the world to harness the power of landscapes for transformative change towards radical inclusivity and sustainability. Recognizing...

The SAPEA webinar will set the scene by focusing on climate action for health before looking at how we can use scientific evidence to integrate climate change and health...

Diet paterns — both, levels of consumption and composition — increase the “triple burden” of undernourishment, over-nourishment and malnutrition on peoples' health, mostly in developing countries. |...

Climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 due to heat stress, diarrhoea, malaria, and childhood undernutrition. |...

Higher temperatures have resulted in range expansions for key disease carriers, such as mosquitoes. The incidence of malaria, dengue, and haemorrhagic fever is correlated with temperature, precipitation, and humidity...