Immediately following the three-day AOM Middle East-East Africa District Conference, about 70 people took part in an all day “policy planning forum” to explore the launch of the joint public and private initiative of Universal Flour Fortification. The event’s key organizer, Glen Maberly, public health professor at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., said this forum [...]

The precious things are not pearls and jade but the five grains,” runs an old Chinese saying. And in Asia, with nearly 90% of the world’s rice production and consumption, rice has always ranked first among grains. The movement toward more open markets in recent years has boosted global rice trade to record levels, as [...]