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Photo Documentation on the Achievements in the Fight against Malnutrition in Ethiopia
“Ending Malnutrition in Ethiopia – A SUCCESS STORY” is the title of a photo documentation produced by the EU and... Read More
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Best Practices
Key for ideas
When leafing through history books in search of suggestions, your attention will be drawn for example to a rather down-to-earth idea, found centuries ago suggesting that sailors should receive preventive treatment with sauerkraut before going on a long journey. Or – a more recent example – a some 1,700 years old guide to Chinese naturopathy containing the decisive description of a natural active agent against malaria which is awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015. Learning from others is a first step towards finding your own solution approach against hidden hunger. Dietary habits belong to lifestyle which – also ethnically – is passed on from generation to generation. Changes suggested by external sources require a cautious translation for the target group if they are intended to last. Relevant reference points are offered for instance by experience with mHealth programs such as SMS for Life in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
Best Practices
Brazil’s Success in Reducing Stunting
Brazil has tremendous success in reducing stunting in children under the age of five. This successful path took more than... Read More
Leaf Vegetables from “Pocket Gardens” Succeed in Preventing Anemias in Mothers in Tanzania
Breeding and consumption of leafy vegetables have been successful in helping mothers in rural Tanzania towards a more micronutrient rich... Read More
Forestry in the Desert against Hunger and Drought – Alternative Nobel Prize 2018
The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, has been awarded this year to a farmer from... Read More
Prestigious Award for Microbiome Research against Micronutrient Deficiency
Scientists around the globe are looking for ways to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies in children. With the prestigious Emerging Global Leader... Read More
German Goats for Women in Karamora (Uganda)
In Karamora in the north of Uganda a productive Ugandan-German goat cooperation against malnutrition has been established. Through the aid... Read More
The Micronutrient-Rich Royal Jelly of Bees
The micronutrient content of bee feed decisively determines whether larvae become queens or only worker bees. Every bee larvae carries... Read More
Edipeel – An Edible Protective Cover for Perishable Fruits and Vegetables
More than half of the world’s fruits and vegetables perish before they are eaten. Experts around the world are working... Read More
Start-ups for Medical Aid in Africa
Start-ups are a bearer of hope for medical (and economic) innovations in Africa. They also offer perspectives for young committed... Read More
Learning forums for the High-Quality Potato Cultivation in Uganda and Kenya
A whole set of actions against malnutrition is linked to the promotion of high-quality and quantitative potato cultivation in Kenya... Read More
Cyanobacteria against Malnutrition in Kenya
Cyanobacteria against Malnutrition in Kenya Students from Regensburg turn unfavorable conditions for the Kenyan agriculture around Lake Turkana in Kenya... Read More
Cidades Sem Fome: Cities Without Hunger
The Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is leading by example: in recesses on public areas community gardens emerge. Impoverished people... Read More
Fermentation of Leafy Vegetables and Fruits to Enhance the Availability of Micronutrients for Africa’s Populations
While children in sub-Saharan Africa suffer the most from micronutrient deficiencies worldwide, this region, including Ivory Coast, is characterized by... Read More
Surprise Tropicale – an Online Trade of Fresh, Regional Fruits in Congo
Behind Surprice tropicale conceals the idea of a 24-year-old young entrepreneur from Kinshasa, Congo. Benedict Mundele improves the supply of... Read More
Farmer Business Schools (FBS) in Ivory Coast
Cocoa is the main source of income for small farmers in West Africa and especially the Ivory Coast. But the... Read More
Early Learning Toolkit – Evidence-Based Approaches to Improving Early Childhood Development and Student Learning in the Developing World
Parents who can neither read nor write have a harder time finding new skills to provide their children with sufficient... Read More
NutriPhone Tested for Micronutrient Diagnostics
NutriPhones are new, mobile, smartphone-based test systems that are used to determine the vitamin- and cholesterol-status in the blood using... Read More
Nutrient Diversity Through Tilapia Fish Farms
In the German-Zambian student competition of the initiative Students4Kids in 2016 the Jury decided to reward two project teams for... Read More
Fiber Bananas (Ensete Ventricosum) for a Mineral-Rich Diet in Southern Africa
In the German-Zambian student competition of the initiative Students4Kids in 2016 the Jury decided to reward two project teams for... Read More
Using Local Technologies for Smartphone Applications
With the initiative Students4Kids, the Assmann Foundation for Prevention promotes student inventions to fight hidden hunger in the world and... Read More
Telephone Hotline Allows Prediction Where Dengue Infections Will Spread
A phone-based early warning system can forecast in which region dengue fever will spread. The idea of this effective technology... Read More
Nutrition Education Lessons for Malawian Farmers as a Trigger for Changing Lifestyles in Order to Avoid Extreme Growth Retardation (Stunting) in Their Children
Nutrition Education Lessons for Malawian farmers as a trigger for changing lifestyles in order to avoid extreme growth retardation (stunting)... Read More
Smartphone-Diagnosis of Respiratory and Pulmonary Diseases for Developing Countries – a Promising Project of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
In the field of student inventions for development aid an inexpensive smartphone-based diagnosis-tool is currently gaining worldwide attention. The invention:... Read More
Quick Diagnosis Against Hidden Hunger as a Model for the Future
Micronutrient deficiency occurs in many different shapes and so it requires an efficient and effective diagnostic to determine how to... Read More
Programming Skills as a Success Factor for Students
Anyone who wants to establish themselves in the increasingly digitized business world will need basic knowledge of a programming language... Read More
Tablets in Secondary Prevention – a Student Initiative Not Just for Kids
In 2012, during the turbulence of everyday life at Narayana-hospital in South India, students from Stanford have developed the practical... Read More
With Micronutrient-Rich Foods from Zambian Forest Gardens Against Hidden Hunger
The Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPR) from Lusaka proposes in a report from March 2016 to use foods from... Read More
IT from Students for Kids
IT-students from the university RWTH Aachen have developed a learning platform for primary school students, which allows to playfully learn... Read More
Top 10 Health-Apps for Africa
The HealthCare Innovation Summit evaluated the current healthcare apps for Africa. As a result, a top 10 list for the... Read More
Nixtamalization – an Ancient Processing Technology of Maize to Prevent Malnutrition
If maize is solely consumed as a staple food for a prolonged period of time, this unbalanced diet can lead... Read More
Food Security Through the Strengthening of a Regional Value Chain
By promoting the farming production and marketing of the crop at the same time, the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale... Read More
Immune Response of Bacteria as a Model for the Invention of the Universal Applicable Gene Scissor CRISPR-Cas9
The genome-editing method CRISPR was ranked in the December issue of the scientific journal “Science” as the scientific breakthrough of... Read More
Students as Inventors for Development Aid
Students are also successful inventors of tools that can be applied in development aid. The most recent example is the... Read More
Way Out of the So-Called Resource Trap
The World Hunger Index 2015 states that the hidden hunger problem in Zambia is getting worse. Scientists see this development... Read More
The Brick Router Called the BRCK, an Internet Access for Africa
Power failures and an unreliable internet limit the participation in the digital world which is noticeably also in Zambia. The... Read More
Smartphone – Route to Clean Drinking Water and More
Using the app, you can register waterholes via GPS data and mark them on an open online map. Health workers... Read More
Diversification
A concept for the self-production of foodstuffs that complement corn as the basic food and reduce stunting as a symptom... Read More
Radio Schools
In remote, rural regions of Africa, children often have no opportunity to go to school. In consultation with the Zambian... Read More
Impressions on Film
On film 10 billion. We all can satisfy our hunger, says filmmaker Valentin Thurn upon the introduction of approaches for... Read More
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2015
An extract of artemisia annua (English: annual mugwort) forms the basis of the new malaria medication artemisinin. Used against multi-resistant... Read More
Garden in a Bag
Microgardens are cost-effective and represent an option for, but not only for, a healthy food self-sufficiency and for a long-term... Read More
Living Museum
A living museum preserves the traditional pre-global culture of a region. It offers additional income in rural areas and promotes... Read More
Model Calculation
The Copenhagen Consensus Initiative think tank creates economically calculable concepts of how world nutrition can be secured until the year... Read More
Model World Contract
According to the concept of a German-American research team published in the “Science“ magazine, the production of sufficient food for... Read More
Quick Help from the Horseradish Tree (Moringa Oleifera)
While mainly corn and rice are being consumed day in, day out, hidden hunger is on the rise. Some countries,... Read More
Paper Made from Grass
The Problem seemed unsolvable: Germany for instance, consumes four times the amount of paper pulp the country produces, i.e. some... Read More