[AODA members] [Fwd: [hen-l] Great article in Feb issue in JADA]

[Stacia Nordin, RD]

AODA members -

I've not read this whole JADA article myself yet, but my colleagues in 
the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition group seem to give it their 
approval.  The connection for this article came directly through ADA 
last year, which is super!

The journalist, James McCaffree, contacted me explaining: 
"Jason Switt at the ADA forwarded me your email address in regards to an 
article related to the Zaragoza World Expo and water. I know a little 
about what you do in Malawi.  Jason would like me to write an article 
about the Expo subtheme of Water and the Improvement of the Human Diet, 
an "Individual Challenge" subtheme of "Water for Life." It's kind of a 
broad topic and I'm trying to narrow it."

I'm looking forward to reading the whole thing and I'll write him / JADA 
a note thanking James, Jason and the Editor for covering the topic and 
representing us well (if they indeed did!).  I will also suggest they 
continue to contact AODA members for international information. 

The AODA Leadership Team is currently working on the Communication 
Coordinator position, the Public Relations / Media position is open.  If 
any of you are interested / excited by working with the public and the 
media, let us know!

Stacia

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Subject: 	[hen-l] Great article in Feb issue in JADA
Date: 	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:28:26 -0600
From: 	angie.tagtow at mac.com
To: 	ADA Dietetic Practice Group <hen-l at list.cornell.edu>



What a great article in the Feb issue of JADA - thanks Stacia, Mary Jo 
and Allison!!  Fantastic PR for HEN and a much needed topic to be 
addressed - Angie

http://www.adajournal.org/article/PIIS0002822307022195/fulltext

*Water and Sustainable Agriculture: What They Mean to Food and Nutrition 
Professionals*
Volume 108, Issue 2, Pages 215-216 (February 2008)

n case you haven’t kept up with World Expos since the 1982 World Expo in 
Knoxville, TN, there are still World Expos, and the 2008 World Expo will 
be held in Zaragoza, Spain. According to a Unesco Web site, “The Expo 
Zaragoza 2008 will be an international celebration of the dynamic 
relationship between water and human societies, in a global, effective 
and supportive project, created on the basis of an enduring concept: 
water and sustainable development” (1).

What exactly is sustainable development and how does it affect water?

According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social 
Affairs Division for Sustainable Development, it is: “Development that 
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of 
future generations to meet their own needs” (2).

If that is sustainable development, what do we have today? Basically, 
the opposite. The Environmental Protection Agency blames current 
agricultural practices for some 70% of the pollution in our nation’s 
rivers and streams (3). Monocropping (the practice of growing only one 
crop on a parcel of land—typically corn, soybeans, wheat, or cotton) has 
been implicated in “degradation of water quality with sediment, 
nutrients, and pesticides; hydrologic modifications contributing to 
flooding and groundwater depletion; disruption of terrestrial and 
aquatic wildlife habitats; emission of greenhouse gases; and degradation 
of air quality with odors, pesticides and particulates” (4).

The good news is that there are people working to reverse this trend.
On the Frontlines
return to Article Outline

One dietitian, Stacia Nordin, RD, 2007-2008 president of the American 
Overseas Dietetic Association and school health and nutrition advisor 
for Basic Education, Ministry of Education of Malawi, works with 
villagers, educating them in efficient water use in agriculture and at 
home. She’s a passionate advocate for permaculture, “an ecological 
design system for sustainability in all aspects of human endeavor,” 
encompassing everything from homebuilding to water use, not just 
agriculture (5).

Read more go 
to http://www.adajournal.org/article/PIIS0002822307022195/fulltext




Angie Tagtow, MS, RD, LD
Food & Society Policy Fellow

Environmental Nutrition Solutions
/An ecological approach to food and health/
13464 NE 46th Street
Elkhart, Iowa 50073
515.367.5200
angie.tagtow at mac.com <mailto:angie.tagtow at mac.com>
www.environmentalnutritionsolutions.com 
<http://www.environmentalnutritionsolutions.com>

Check out the new Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition at 
http://JHEN.HaworthPress.com


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Note:  My e-mail has been terrible since November 2007.  
*  The Malawi Telephone service has been on strike since January 2 (and I have a dial up service).  
*  I've had no computer for part of January
*  I am struggling to keep up.  If you sent something important and I've not responded, please resend assuming it is lost or buried deep in the rubble.
*  Thanks for your patience.

Stacia Nordin, RD
Registered Dietitian
School Health & Nutrition Advisor
Malawi Ministry of Education

Kristof, Khalidwe & Stacia Nordin
Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security Consultants
Crossroads Post Dot Net x-124, Lilongwe, Malawi
nordin at eomw.net 
www.NeverEndingFood.org

Phones:  (Malawi is +2 GMT)
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