1. Big Bill (Gates) and Big Food
Big Food Watch network member Claudio Schuftan writes: In his commentary ‘Words for our sponsors’ (1), Fabio Gomes says rightly: ‘ “Big Food” refers to the class of food and…
2. Agitation: Divided we will fall
Agitation. There’s been plenty of demonstrations in the streets of the USA and Europe, but nothing has changed. A much greater unity of purpose is needed From Claudio Schuftan, Ho…
3. Food Riots
Editor’s note. Welcome to this new department of World Nutrition. It carries short communications designed to add new information to WN commentaries and other contributions. Updates will often be by…
4. Rising food prices
World Nutrition Volume 2, Number 4, April 2011 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association RISING FOOD PRICES AND CHILDREN: Nutrition Implications. Claudio Schuftan People’s Health Movement Biography posted…
5. Food price crises
99 World Nutrition Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org The Association is an affiliated body of the International…
6. Nutrition and sustainable development
December blog Claudio Schuftan Rio, then Basel and Berlin. I am just flying back from a Medicus Mundi one day symposium on the right to health in Basel and some…
7. Hunger: the big picture
December blog Claudio Schuftan Ouadougou. I began this month’s column in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. How come I am here? Well, the government here is in the process of finalising guidelines…
8. Food sovereignty
November blog Claudio Schuftan Geneva. Here I am (or was, most recently) in beautiful Geneva, with its serene lake shown above, and home to the World Health Organization. Yes, I…
9. How nutrition improves
October blog Claudio Schuftan I was in Rome in early September. Not to see the Pope or the Piazza d’Espagna. But rather to contribute to our global efforts to bring…
10. MDGs: for whom? and for what?
October blog Claudio Schuftan At the two-thirds point between 2000 and 2015, at a summit at UN headquarters in New York, the United Nations has just completed its assessment and…