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Download Ageways 76: Food and Nutrition - Includes "Tackling the Food Crisis"

OLDER PERSONS - FOOD & NUTRITION - AGEWAYS - WOMEN

Older people are key producers and providers of food, yet millions go hungry. This is unacceptable.

This issue of Ageways looks at the many reasons why, from the impact of global food price rises to lack of understanding of older people's nutritional needs, and suggests ways to tackle these problems.

Across the world, countless community initiatives such as lunch clubs and "meals on wheels" services give older people their only chance of a decent meal.

Many are run by volunteers, often older people themselves. This issue of Ageways is an opportunity to pay
tribute to their vital work, as well as a call for action at all levels to alleviate older people's hunger.

The issues includes articles by Lisett Larico Vásquez who shows how subsistence farmers in Bolivia are growing more crops and "eating like city folk" despite erratic rainfall and longer droughts.

Dina Zekic Gillham describes how a project in Kyrgyzstan has not only provided older people with food for the winter but also brought people together.