"Food System Mapping in Kanyanya (Kampala)" - Workshop Report.

Food value chains are part of the systemic drivers of urban food and nutrition security. An important part of these value chains are the various informal small actors. These include producers, transporters, processors and retailers. One of the main objectives of the NOURICITY project is to initiate and to implement partnership agreements between different local, national and international stakeholders to improve the urban food system. Therefore, we conducted a workshop as indicated by Work Package 1 of the NOURICITY project. This workshop aims to map the stakeholders of the food system in Kampala and to map the food flows in one of the parishes in Kampala. The parish selected was Kanyanya (Kawempe division). The workshop consisted of two days with two groups of people: the first day for parish representatives and the second day for Kampala and national representatives

eMIL: advanced emission Mössbauer spectrometer for measurements in versatile conditions

The current work presents a contemporary design of an advanced emission Mössbauer Spectrometer: eMIL equipped with a parallel-plate avalanche detector, which has been devised and built for the Mössbauer collaboration at ISOLDE/CERN. The setup is based on emission geometry, combined with on-line/off-line isotope implantation and provides numerous advantages over conversion electron, common emission (where isotope is deposited chemically on a sample) or transmission Mössbauer spectroscopy. eMIL is designed to measure hyperfine interactions in solids under various exposures. The implemented design overcomes limitations and improves performance and handling. In the current revision, the chamber is supplied with an UV extension — allowing to perform studies of photo-catalytic materials under external light exposure. A specifically designed motorized lid-samples-holder is fully automatized, and makes it possible to study up to 4 samples loaded in a magazine within a temperature range from RT up to 1100 K and to perform angular dependent measurements in high vacuum. This work additionally briefly describes data acquisition with additional electronic blocks, vacuum and data-acquisition system construction

Nutritional Status of Adolescent Girls from Rural Communities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Background: Addressing the nutritional needs of adolescents could be an important step towards breaking the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition.Objective: Assess nutritional status of rural adolescent girls.Design: Cross-sectional.Methods: Anthropometric and socio-demographic information from 211 adolescent girls representing 650 randomly selected households from thirteen communities in Tigray was used in data analysis. Height-for-age and BMI-for-age were compared to the 2007 WHO growth reference. Data were analyzed using SAS, Version 9.1.Results: None of the households reported access to adolescent micronutrient supplementation. The girls were shorter and thinner than the 2007 WHO reference population. The cross-sectional prevalence of stunting and thinness were 26.5% and 58.3%, respectively. Lack of latrine facilities was significantly associated with stunting (p = 0.0033) andthinness (

Zoetwater zelfvoorzienendheid van de landbouw: Deltafact

Deze Deltafact gaat over de zoetwater zelfvoorzienendheid van de landbouw in Nederland en de verschillende technieken die daar aan bijdragen