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 …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday tried to strike a balance between the apprehended side-effects of genetically modified seeds and foodgrains and the highincidence of hunger and poverty in India. Hearing PILs seeking stringent regulatory mechanism and advanced testing for the toxicity of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs), a …
HARSH MANDER It is not just a rural phenomenon. Hunger stalks our city streets too and is much more prevalent than we think ... It is interesting that a fifth of the homeless people we spoke to said that they prefer to stay hungry than depend on charity from religious …
NEW DELHI: Lashing out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government for price rise and spread of hunger and malnutrition in the country during the past five years, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said data now showed that India was the "hunger capital of the world." "The …
World Food Programme report says India tops world hunger chart The number of hungry people in India far outstrips those that live in any other country in the world, says the UN World Food Programme (WFP) report prepared jointly with the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation. Coming down heavily on …
With 230 Million Undernourished, It Accounts For 27% Of Global Total New Delhi: India is failing its rural poor with 230 million people being undernourished
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: KENYA Author: Daniel Wallis NAIROBI - Up to a quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation and loss, water scarcity and species infestation, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The fall-off will strike just …
Underscoring the need for attaining a healthy agricultural growth rate for effectively addressing the concerns of poverty and hunger, Assam Governor Shiv Charan Mathur today said that horticulture, in particular, had immense scope for commercial exploitation.
The number of hungry people in the world swelled by 40 million to touch the 923-million mark in 2008, chiefly due to higher food prices. More people could be pushed into hunger if the ongoing financial and economic crisis continues, a United Nations body has warned. An overwhelming majority of …
Date: 28-Jan-09 Country: SPAIN Author: Martin Roberts MADRID - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday said rich nations had to do more to prevent the economic crisis from adding to an already intolerable 1 billion people going hungry in the world. Food prices had come down for the time being …
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Lucknow: Winters are turning inauspicious for ghariyals in Uttar Pradesh. More than 100 ghariyals died in the winter months last year at the National Chambal Sanctuary. This winter 1,000 ghariyals of Kukrail Rehabilitation Centre might perish due to hunger. The fishermen supplying fishes to the rehabilitation centre …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kozhikode is all set to become the first hunger-free city in the country. For, the Social Welfare Department has embarked on a unique mission to provide free meals to the needy. The Social Security Mission project, constituted by the Government for the care of the poor, aged, children, women …
Jon Vidal No one could have predicted quite how dramatically 2008 would have ended. Even as President Bush was slashing his way through U.S. environmental protection laws, president-elect Obama appointed Nobel prize-winning physicist Steve Chu as the next U.S. energy secretary. Chu is seen as the repudiation of everything that …
BANGLADESH has been ranked 70th among 88 nations in the global hunger index (GHI) as reported by media recently. From January 2007 to June 2008, one-third of all the countries, for which GHI was calculated, suffered from a violent or non-violent protest, with multiple occurrences in Bangladesh, according to the …
Kalyan, a youth welfare organisation in the district has started a 'Millennium Village' programme supported by German Agro Action in a small pocket of Purulia district since September 2006. This organisation falls under the umbrella of Ramakrishna Mission Lokasiksha Parishad, Narendrapur and their aim is to achieve certain developmental goals …
By Prasenjit Chowdhury The world's population has continued to grow while its food production has not. The prognosis by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen that India might actually become two countries in economic terms, one with all the pomp and
