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Unicef Report 2013 Improving Child Nutrition
Unicef recently launched their latest report on Child Nutrition in Dublin. Click here to read more.
The Business of Nutrition
We treat starvation victims as active clients rather than passive victims. Read more.
Valid Nutrition obtains Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) status in US
Valid Nutrition is delighted to announce that our application to CAFAmerica has been successful and we are now eligible to receive grants/donations from U.S. individuals, corporations or foundations. Many U.S. donors want to contribute to solving global problems. The...
Changing Business Models To Change The World
A business led approach is imperative to make a meaningful impact in the area of malnutrition. Click here to read more.
Steve recently received an Honorary Doctorate from LIU and delivered the keynote speech at their commencement ceremony
Dr. Steve Collins will receive an Honorary Doctorate from Long Island University, when he delivers the commencement address at the 54th Commencement exercises at LIU Post on Friday, May 4, 2012. Download Speech PDF here.
VN’s current research in Malawi and Ethiopia
Market Innovation for Smallholder Groundnut Farmers Research Programme. Click here to download PDF.
Production of RUTF in Africa
Ready-to-use therapeutic foods have revolutionised famine relief in Africa; A Guardian blog explores the benefits of African production. Click here to read more.
Scaling Social Impact
When Everybody Contributes, Everybody Wins – INNOVATIONS is a quarterly journal published by MIT Press, USA. Article by Jon McPhedran Waitzer & Roshan Paul. Click here to download PDF.
Award for Tackling Big Issues…
At a ceremony attended by the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, Dr. Steve Collins was presented with the Global Ashoka Senior Fellowship Award... Click here to download PDF.
Feed the World
Dr. Steve Collins has been selected as one of 25 social entrepreneurs around the world to participate in the Ashoka Globaliser in Vienna… Click here to download PDF.
Dr Steve Collins reflects on the opportunities and problems associated with the USD$250 million contribution announced by Administrator, Samantha Power of USAID – a positive catalyst for change?
VALID commissioned and achieved peer-review of a professional report to quantify objectively the overall climate impact profile of the amino-acid enhanced, plant-based RUTF recipe. It has found that the overall global warming potential impacts of the plant-based RUTF recipe are 47%-52% less than the milk-peanut based recipe.
Dr Steve Collins gives a hugely informative and enlightened interview to ENN podcast while discussing his candid Reflections on the UN Global Action Plan on Wasting.