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Bread and Brain, Education and Poverty

Proceedings of the Working Group
4-6 November 2013
A.M. Battro, I. Potrykus, M. Sánchez Sorondo (Eds)
Scripta Varia 125
© Libreria Editrice Vaticana | Vatican City, 2015
pp. 278 | ISBN 978-88-7761-105-5

Contents

The Importance of Micronutrients for Economic Development

Bjørn Lomborg

Lessons from Golden Rice

Ingo Potrykus

A Digital Educational Environment in Poor Populations

Antonio M. Battro

The Reading Brain, Global Literacy, and the Eradication of Poverty

Maryanne Wolf, Stephanie Gottwald, Tinsley Galyean, Robin Morris, Cynthia Breazea

Biological and Sociocultural Determinants of Neurocognitive Development: Central Aspects of the Current Scientific Agenda

Sebastián J. Lipina

Consequences of the Anti-GMO Campaigns

Robert Paarlberg

Sleep, Slums and Shelter: Impact of a Slum-housing Upgrading Program

Daniel P. Cardinali, Guido Simonelli, Solange Rodríguez Espínola, Agustín Salvia, Daniel Pérez-Chada, Daniel E. Vigo

Structuring Opportunity for Immigration Origin Children

Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

Food and Nutrition Security – The Concept and its Realization

Joachim von Braun

Biofortification: Progress Toward a More Nourishing Future

Amy Saltzman, Ekin Birol, Howarth E. Bouis, Erick Boy, Fabiana F. De Moura, Yassir Islam, and Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer

Supplementation: An Effective Approach for Improving Nutrition and Health

Klaus Kraemer, Eva Monterrosa, Henry Mark

Hidden Hunger – Consequences for Brain Development

Konrad Biesalski

La desnutrición infantil genera la única debilidad mental que se puede prevenir y revertir, la única creada por el hombre

Abel Albino

The Quest to Assure a Well-Fed World in 2050 Will Take an Integrated Global Effort

Robert S. Zeigler

Socioeconomic Approaches to Long Lasting Effects of Early Chilhood Education

Juan J. Llach