Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
Catalogue
- Books
Nutrition and working efficiency / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Date: 1962- Books
Nutrition problems of rice-eating countries in Asia / Nutrition Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Date: 1948- Books
Rice and rice diets : a survey / prepared by the Nutrition Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Date: 1948- Books
Maize and maize diets : a nutritional survey / Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Nutrition Division.Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
Ceres Medal, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 1975Reference: PP/CDW/A.14Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)