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  • Upcoming events 8 Sep

    The following event has been added to the NEOH website recently:


    World Conference on Environmental Science, Clean Energy, Agriculture and Climate Change (WECAC 2017)

    Abstract deadline: 30 Sep 2017

    Organizers: Expert Group on Renewable Energy (EGRE)

    Date:  20- 25 November 2017

    Location: London, UK

    Read more at: http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/wecac-2017/


     

  • World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice

    Twenty five years ago, in 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists and over 1500 scientists published the famous declaration entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”. They called on humanity to curb environmental destruction, warning “all humanity that a great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided.” Now, on the 25th anniversary of their famous call, we looked back at their warning and evaluated the human response over the last quarter century. This 25-year update will soon be published by BioScience.

    To see the in press article “World scientists’ warning to humanity: a second notice” and add your name as a co-signatory, click: http://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/

    This short article is only 1,000 words long and can be read in 6 minutes. If you are a scientist, we invite you to endorse this article by adding your name to the co-signatory list. In doing so, when the article is published by BioScience, you will be included in the full list of co-signatories in the article’s online supplemental material.

    Please forward this invitation to other scientists that may also be interested in signing.  If you use Twitter, consider inviting your colleagues to add their signatures by including #ScientistsWarningToHumanity in a tweet.

  • Article: Food, the source of Nutrition

    Food, the source of Nutrition
    By Kristof and Stacia Nordin, www.NeverEndingFood.org
    World Nutrition 2017;8(1):87-94
    Food is the source of Nutrition. When taken at face value, this wouldn’t appear to be a very controversial statement, especially when espoused within a journal dedicated to food and nutrition. However, when we take a closer look at current efforts being made in the fields of agriculture and nutrition, one often gets the impression that many food, nutrition, and agriculture experts have become convinced that food can no longer provide all of the nutrients which are essential to the optimal growth and development of the human body.
    Amid reports of worldwide food insecurity, famines, malnutrition (in all forms), and the increasing challenge of trying to feed an ever-growing global population, we hear repeated calls for programs aimed at nutritional supplementation, fortification, and even the nutritional alteration of food through genetic engineering. This would seem to beg the question, ‘What happened to our food?” The answer is ‘nothing’. Highly nutritious foods, entirely capable of fulfilling human nutritional requirements, still exist. However, due to an over-reliance on monocropped and industrialized agricultural systems, nutritional diversity is increasingly being marginalized. Instead of asking ‘What happened to our food,’ a more pertinent question would be ‘What happened to our food system’?
  • One Health News

    The most recent edition of One Health News from the One Health Comisssion can be downloaded here.

    It includes:

    • A reminder about the Second Annual Global One Health Day 2017 on November 3, 2017
    • One Health News
    • Events
    • Opportunities
    • Presentations, interviews, webinars, videos and blogs
    • One Health publications and books