2024: Uniting Technology and Tradition to Combat Child Stunting Globally

In this 2024 FNCE session, speakers will explore a groundbreaking global malnutrition project integrating nutrition with engineering technology to combat child stunting in impoverished regions. Speakers will share insights into the implementation of digital food systems and the use of industrial drones for transporting produce and goods. Attendees will discover how earned food credits and reverse drone delivery enhance nutrition status while preserving cultural traditions and how this model, starting in the Uganda mountains, will spread globally. This session will conclude with insights on how attendees can be a part of the global solution to malnutrition.

CPE Information

CPEU: 1.50 (Valid Until May 31, 2027)

Learning Objectives

• Identify opportunities to expand your professional network of international nutrition and dietetic practitioners and promote collaboration and other volunteer opportunities in the field of global malnutrition.
• Describe the various applications of drone technology in addressing malnutrition on an international scale, including its role in improving food accessibility, delivery efficiency, and logistical support in remote areas.
• Identify at least two actionable steps you can take to contribute to the global solution to malnutrition, including potential involvement with relevant organizations or initiatives.

Performance Indicators

• 2.2.2 Recognizes the importance of differences, orientation, social and cultural norms that may have an impact on individuals, groups and plans of nutrition care, services or education.
• 2.4.2 Recognizes the impact of food security defined as factors affecting applicable population and access to a sufficient quantity of safe, healthful food and water, as well as food/nutrition-related supplies.
• 5.2.5 Analyzes and synthesizes information and identifies new information, patterns and findings.

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• Uniting Technology and Tradition