A brief note about the tool for anyone curious: it is facilitated with a 24-hr recall or a food list. The calculations are based on diversity of food groups and so it can be used (1) without composition data or expensive software (2) regardless of in-country food guides or dietary recommendations. It’s meant to be used for either large nation-wide datasets OR for comparison over time (so for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation).
I have a couple of questions regarding a project I’m working on and if you’ve used this MDD-W measurement, I’d love to chat!
Under initiative call “Project Farm Gate Price” we are involved in the activity of implementing a “Business Plan” for “White Button Mushroom Growing Room Project” in India
Mushroom cultivation can solve the problem of nutrition by converting waste from agriculture activity in to protein
We like to replicate our activity in other countries
We have developed a innovative business model for scaling up the activity of Mushroom cultivation on large scale
We are looking for people in other countries, those who are interested in promoting Mushroom cultivation for solving nutrition related problems and joining hand with them to deploy “White Button Mushroom Growing Room” in their country
Indeed, human nutrition is a crucial aspect of sustainable community development, and understanding its relationship to agriculture science is essential for addressing food security, health, and overall well-being. By creating a dedicated space within the ECHO network for members to discuss work, research, and questions related to human nutrition, you can foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among individuals with similar interests.
yes. we can move things around a lot. And should. But also need to valorize what is already there. I have been delighted to learn that a local field weed is a first rate diabetes reduction medicine, regularizing blood sugar. I eat a lot of the local greens and look into the history of the area to find out what they used to eat before becoming poor through imports.
I am an agriculturalist who spent 8 years in South Sudan and other east African countries and a number of years doing short missions projects visiting many parts of the globe. I think there are a lot of great contributions here at ECHO. A few things I have picked up over the years that may be unique is (1) nutrition is a discipline and so implanting Christian worldview connected to the motivation of the Great Commission of making disciples of all nations should be trained as primary and when that is in place people will be eager to be responsible and learn about nutrition (2) My wife said that when she was raising her kids they would go to the store and pick out a new vegetable and then cook it three different ways so they were most likely to learn to like it at least one of the ways instead of developing a negative association with it. Always encourage them to take a taste (3) Focus on presentation of food or the looks of produce since studies have shown that people will buy more of what looks presentable or eat more of what looks presentable. (4) Focus on what the kids or family members like that is nutritious instead of what is considered the most nutritious. Family members will get better nutrition of they eat of variety of what they like then fighting resistance of one really nutritious food that they are refusing to eat and then later eat what they like that is not nutritious to fill their stomachs. (5) In most cases I would deemphasize the whole buy local emphasis. I used to work for a “buy local” campaign and the ideas they had were ridiculous like trying to get kids to eat frozen foods from a freezer as opposed to eating something they liked much better fresh from another country or zone. (6) If you buy into the organic program you are going to lose time producing and if you are buying it then you will be paying more and less likely to buy as much or as often the things you like to eat. Organic is not proven to be more nutritious by nearly every study. Plants can not tell if they are taking up organic nutrients or synthetic. If you have fields of any appreciable size you may find the best production and particularly return on investment of money and time a combination of the two. (7) Pesticides in most cases, if people are following the label, are not the threat that many people make them out to be. Pesticides break down into other products and studies generally show that they are way down on the list of important environmental hazards, particularly when compared to the natural toxins and mutagens in your food. Those that have been tested generally are cancer causing at about the same rate as those industrial and pesticide chemicals, about 50%. (8) Exercise is perhaps about as important as anything and weight loss which has some obvious connection (9) Maintaining proper hormone balance for women is very important. Hope this helps. I do a lot of research on comparing cancer risks and also have a passion for reading about nutrition from research studies.