This special report from the World Peace Foundation documents how Ethiopian and Eritrean belligerents in the war in Tigray have comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food system. It provide evidence of their ongoing actions to deprive people of objects and activities indispensable to their survival—actions that amount to international …
MUKESH RANJAN To witness abject poverty, as it exists in subSaharan Ethiopia, one need not travel to that country. Similar situation exists in India, as Madhya Pradesh (MP) has human development indicators which match the Ethiopian reality. The state's plan document, which was recently finalised by the Planning Commission, reveals …
NEW DELHI: As food prices soar to the skies, the poor are eating less and the Government has camouflaged this brand of inflation by combining food with other commodities like steel and metals whose prices are falling, said environment activist Vandana Shiva here on Thursday. Hunger: causes, cures She also …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 27, 2009, 0:18 IST A United Nations agency has cautioned that the population of hungry people in the world will reach an all-time high in 2009, largely because of the ongoing global economic crisis. The latest estimates of global hunger, released by the UN …
R Krishna Das / Raipur July 24, 2009, 1:29 IST Rakesh, a youth from Banrasi village in Chhattisgarh, is eager to marry and a trifle annoyed that his father, Tulsidas, has been putting it off. Tulsidas, a daily wage earner living below the poverty line (BPL), does not want to …
PARADIP: They survive on wild mushrooms and saag. With the vegetables out of reach, the poor people in remote areas of Jagatsinghpur district have found a means to quench their hunger in the inedible forest produce. In what seems to be a grim reminder of the Kalahandi situation, where famished …
Devesh K. Pandey NEW DELHI: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said agriculture would be the strongest and most important pillar of cooperation between the United States and India. During a visit to the Indian Agricultural Research Institute here (IARI), Ms. Clinton said:
For the past more than 15 days, the two hours of wait for the half an hour electricity supply for 75-year old Ramesh Lal, a resident of Pangdor village of Samba district, seems to be a never ending affair as everyday he has to walk several kilometres from the village …
AMIT AGNIHOTRI The Indo-US cooperation in the agriculture sector is all set for a big push with the US likely to unveil a huge financial package to help India fight hunger and achieve its food security target. "We will be announcing five pillars of our cooperation with India on Monday. …
Our ability to manage the monsoon will determine our ability to reduce hunger and ensure food, water, and livelihood security. Mastering the art and science of monsoon management holds the key to adaptation to adverse changes in temperature and precipitation caused by climate change, leading to the more frequent occurrence …
The political movement that came up from among the people of Lalgarh in November 2008 cried out for help and support from the civil and democratic society
New Delhi: The number of hungry people in the world may cross one billion in 2009 due to the shocks of the global economic crisis combined with high food prices in a few countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.
The global economic crisis will help push 100 million people into poverty this year through lost jobs and lower earnings, leaving one sixth of the world
Death Due To Hunger, Sickness And Weather Disasters To Rise To Half A Million By 2030: Report London: Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said …
SARAH BOSELEY Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such …
By Jose Graziano da Silva,IPS UN Food and Agricultural Organisation is calling for a new World Food Summit for 2009. Though the world economic outlook continues to look grim, it is worth asking what the world will be like when we exit this crisis. We have to identify the forces …
Somalia's worst drought in a decade is pushing growing numbers of children into near-famine conditions and deepening the humanitarian crisis caused by political violence, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Some 3.2 million Somalis are among an estimated 19 million people in the Horn of Africa in urgent need of …
Akshay Kumar Sahoo The local people complain that the government-sponsored schemes are not reaching the targeted beneficiaries. Orissa is generally regarded as one of the least developed states in the country. At Rs 5,985 a year, the per capita income in Orissa is one of the lowest among 17 states. …
