Global report on food crises 2024
According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million
According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million
Ranchi, Sept.
Lawrence Haddad We need to make sure nutrition is not easily neglected. And that means putting pressure on leaders throughout society to focus on nutrition. I have just finished a trip to India to help contribute to the efforts on ending malnutrition. The politicians and media were talking about the sparkling new economic growth and development figures.
Yoginder K Alagh This has been the food security week with the NAC and the courts getting into the last lap. The fact that a food security system will be set up is accepted by all and this column has always stood by that. A nation, growing the way India is and with its resource base, has no business accepting stark hunger as a given. Three issues have been raised. The first is coverage.
Life expectancy in India has increased by nearly 50 per cent since 1960, says India Health Report 2010 by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indicus Analytics.
JAYA JUMRANI, Nikhila Gill As long as the poor remain malnourished, the malnourished will remain poor. Calorie deficits lower worker productivity, which in turn affects national output by as much as 4%. The government enacted the Food Security Act to alleviate hunger in India, a country with more hungry people than sub-Saharan Africa.
As the government struggles to incorporate nutritional aspects in the proposed right to food legislation, the industry has come forward in support of right to nutrition and offered to engage with the government as partner, the way it got its act together in the 1990s to produce iodine fortified salt.
<p><span id="itro1">This report on the world hunger situation warns that many countries are going backwards on crucial hunger pledge, with more people under-nourished than a decade ago. In this scorecard China, ranked second out of the developing countries.</span></p>
This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition.
The eighth Policies against Hunger conference discussed the subject of
<p>This paper argues that the global poverty problem has changed because most of the world’s poor no longer live in poor countries meaning low-income countries (LICs).