With World Food Day on the horizon (this Saturday, October 16th), we are presented with an opportunity for the global community to come together and reflect on our food systems and their respective effects on our environments; this… Read More
We are SO thrilled to hear that Democracy Now!, one of the most well-known progressive news sources across North America, has released a special feature on Raj Patel’s new film covering SFHC’s work, The Ants and the Grasshopper,… Read More
We hope you’ll check out this piece by our long term collaborator and friend of SFHC, Raj Patel, in Scientific American. Raj uses SFHC as a case study to write about agroecology’s potential as a radical vision for… Read More
Exciting and varied new research is available, from our research partners and farmer leaders! From research analyzing collaborative farmer-to-farmer training, to the exploration of exciting new communications technologies as a means of sharing knowledge, we’re proud of the… Read More
Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group 1 report was released. This detailed and extensive document spells out what many of us have known for a long time now. We are in a critical and… Read More
Since our last update with regards to the groundbreaking film ‘The Ants and the Grasshopper’, (following SFHC leaders Anita Chitaya and Esther Lupafya as they travelled to the United States to have difficult conversations surrounding climate change) we… Read More
SFHC is beyond thrilled to announce the release of an incredible new documentary, The Ants and the Grasshopper (https://www.antsandgrasshopper.org/), directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper. The film follows the story of Anita Chitaya, who has been a… Read More
With our research collaborators at Cornell University and Western University, four of our papers were accepted for publication in 2020. Like our work itself, these publications extend across and between fields: from spatial geography, to ecology, to sociology,… Read More
SFHC is delighted to be receiving support from the Eurofins Foundation to broaden one of our most exciting current projects, Expanding Food and Nutrition Security Through Farmer Training! This will allow us to work with an additional 500… Read More
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Last Updated: October 13, 2021 by Zoe E
“Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It”: Sharman Apt Russell Discusses SFHC in New Book
Sharman Apt Russell, renowned scholar and author, visited SFHC some years ago and captured her exchange with our community and her insights into the world of global nutrition in her new book, “Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide… Read More