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Nutrition is extremely important to astronauts living onboard the Space Station. Without fresh fruits and vegetables, they must subsist on pre-packaged, dehydrated meals that are healthy and contain vitamins and minerals, just as food here on Earth would provide. They even grow some of their own vegetables on-orbit! Enjoy camping or hiking? The technology used to prepare and package the food available to astronauts is the same technology used for the food you bring on your next outdoor adventure! Do you like to cook? One of your recipes could be an ideal candidate for being easy to prepare for the type of food astronauts eat. Have a green thumb? Maybe your community could benefit from having a garden to share. No matter how little, your project could help educate people around the world about the benefits of good nutrition habits and inspire technologies that make living a healthy life easier.
Living Proof: Their Daily Bread
Millions of Egyptians suffer from poor nutrition, with side effects including birth defects and miscarriages. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) started a program to fortify Baladi Bread – the ... Read More
Coast Coconut Farms
Coast Coconut Farms is a social enterprise providing sustainable employment in Kenya's coastal rural areas to alleviate poverty through coconut based businesses. Coast Coconut Farms has reached over 1 ... Read More
Feeding Children Everywhere
Feeding Children Everywhere exists to empower and mobilize people from all walks of life to help meet one of our most basic needs: FOOD. Through passion, education,inspiration and a ... Read More
Engineers Without Borders Fruit Dryer Project
The Johnson Space Center Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is helping the L'Esperance orphanage in Muganero, Rwanda become financially self sufficient by developing a sustainable system that channels waste ... Read More
Why Hunger
Founded in 1975 to address poverty issues in the United States by the late Harry Chapin and Bill Ayres as World Hunger Year, WhyHunger is now a leading advocate for ... Read More
Food and Food Systems in the 21st Century
Tedx L.A. Miracle Mile - Humanity has evolved to its current state due to its species-specific adaptability and plasticity. With human population numbers rapidly increasing throughout the century, we are ... Read More
Convoy for Hope – Food for Famine Relief in Somalia
Like what you see? Then consider this project for a Fragile Oasis medal. Scroll below the photos to vote. Last year Somalia experienced its worst drought in six decades and ... Read More
Digital Green
Digital Green combines technology and social organization to improve the cost-effectiveness of existing agricultural extension systems. The Digital Green system includes (1) a participatory process for local video production, (2 ... Read More
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