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Ms. Stacia Nordin

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Organization: www.NeverEndingFood.org
Country: Malawi
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Stacia has been working for 30 years, mostly in Malawi, but also linking with 60+ countries in diverse sectors, both public and private, working with environment, agriculture, food, education, and health.  She is currently working on 3 projects:

1 - Food Systems Transformation in Southern Africa for One Health - FoSTA Health - a research project with 19 partners in Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. See https://fosta-health.eu

2 - ICDA - International Confederation of Dietetic Associations’ Sustainable Food Systems Toolkit Coordinator.  Learn more about #SustainableFoodSystems with the #ICDAsfsToolkit at: https://ICDAsustainability.org

3 - Completing a Masters on “Informatics for Sustainable Nutrition” to make sense of sustainable food systems with stakeholders for higher impact with communication, connecting, coordination, and collaboration.

Stacia Nordin is a Permaculture Dietitian focused on indigenous resources for strengthening systems needed for nutrition such as environment, agriculture, water, sanitation, energy, etc. Stacia has been working for 30 years, mostly in Malawi, but also linking with 60+ countries in diverse sectors, both public and private, working with environment, agriculture, food, education, and health.

Stacia has studied hundreds of locally available foods in Malawi, which she and her family collect, multiply around their home, and share. She worked with the United Nations World Food Programme to publish the Sustainable Nutrition manual and teaching tools, which is used in homes, schools, businesses, farms, and religious institutions. It is freely available online at: www.NeverEndingFood.org

Stacia is…

—Passionate about waste and tired of it.

—Opening hearts, minds, and eyes to our abundance.

—Concerned that thousands of species are quickly disappearing.

—Hopeful people will realise the earth can provide us with everything we need if let it.

Stacia would love to hear from you if you are also interested in Sustainable Nutrition. 

Her contacts & links are: https://linktr.ee/neverendingfood.permaculture

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    • Programmes barely touch the surface on what they could be doing with pulses. 



      In Malawi only a few hybrid foreign varieties are promoted including artificial and unnecessary 'biofortified' varieties.  Instead we should be looking deeper into Malawi's natural biodiversity to value and increase what we already have but what we aren't growing or using enough of.  A lot more local multiplication for high quality yields of food and seed, seed banks / libraries / businesses, and value addition.



      There are so many ways to use the diversity as well - help people see how to use pulses in dried, powdered, fresh, mashed, and integrated into all sorts of recipes for meals, snacks, baked goods, sprouts, drinks - we need a lot more creativity.  



      All of the input programmes could balanced the kgs of staple vs. pulses given - aid is often 10 kg of grain and 2 kg or pulses - when we already have too much grain in the diet and not enough protein.  Giving the opposite:  10 kg pulses and 2 kg grain, or at least equivalent amounts of each sends a message to the recipients that pulses are important.  Partnering the inputs with Agriculture and Nutrition Extension and Advisory Services and seed pass on programmes aids in understanding, feedback mechanisms and sustainable growth and dvelopment.

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      Stacia Nordin, RD (Registered Dietitian)

      NeverEndingFood, PDN x-124 Crossroads, Lilongwe, Malawi.

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