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 …
By Devinder Sharma Outsourcing food production will leave behind a trail of hunger and food scarcity for the native populations. At the 150th commemoration of the Irish Famine held at Cork, Ireland, I vividly recall the mayor of the city tell the audience:
By Sandeep Bhaskar: There are reasons to be worried about the tribals of Jharkhand facing extinction. The death of over a dozen members belonging to primitive tribes, including three children, in a span of past one month, isn
About 100 million more people will be living in hunger in a year if unfair global agriculture practices are not changed, the head of UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, warned Tuesday.
Rising food prices will push the number of hungry people in the world over one billion next year, a UN expert said on Monday. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in September that at least 925 million people are hungry in the world today, compared with 848 million between …
BHUBANESWAR: All claims of growth with equity by the Government seems to have fallen flat as the 2008 India state hunger index (ISHI) released by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on the eve of World Food Day has painted a shabby picture of Orissa. The ISHI ranked the State …
BY SUDHIR K. SINGH BHOPAL With state polls just 38 days away, Opposition leader Jamuna Devi drew spurious comfort from a report released as part of the 2008 Global Hunger Index which sought to compare Madhya Pradesh
Ranchi, Oct. 16: The Jharkhand adviser to N.C. Saxena, Supreme Court commissioner for food security, would send his report on the alleged hunger death of eight Birhors in Chatra district to the apex court on Friday.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Punjab, the granary of India, ranks below countries like Honduras and Vietnam in terms of hunger levels while Madhya Pradesh has the most severe level of hunger in the country, followed by Jharkhand and Bihar, says a report prepared by U.S.-based International Food Policy Research Institute …
CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said. Outlining his strategies, Prof. Swaminathan said it …
BS Reporter / New Delhi October 15, 2008, 0:31 IST Madhya Pradesh, which reported deaths of malnourished children last month, has the most severe level of hunger in the country and ranks between African countries Ethiopia and Chad, according to a global hunger index released today by the International Food …
Bangladesh, which is among the countries with the most worrisome hunger status, has been ranked 70th among 88 nations in the Global Hunger Index. The country suffers from an alarming level of hunger while Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone
KFC and Pizza Hut have launched the World Hunger Relief Campaign in association with the World Food Programme (WFP) to raise wider awareness about hunger and support the WFP to provide meals to children in schools in order to help ensure that they complete basic education. WFP Representative in Bangladesh …
Global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850 million to 925 million by the start of this year because of rising prices, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday. The number of people suffering from malnutrition, before the worst effects of global price rises, "rose …
Worst hit by the Sidr on November 15 last year, Southkhali union under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat district now sees severe food crisis and many people are reportedly suffering from various diseases resulting from starvation and semi-starvation. Lack of employment opportunity coupled with absence of relief for the Sidr-hit people …
Lesser grains: Can millet save the hungry millions? BY VIKRAM DOCTOR A FEW months back when the food crisis was big news and there was much agonising about inadequate supplies of rice, wheat and corn, I remember thinking, well what about eating millet instead? It
