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 …
Although finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had promised food security and inclusive growth in his budget speech last year, hunger continues to stalk over 300 million citizens of the country. India slipped to 67th place in the Global Hunger Index 2010 rankings of 122 countries prepared by International Food Policy Research …
High and volatile prices for key commodities, including food products, could spark unrest in poor countries, warned the heads of the WTO and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
LAST week, many leading figures in business, government and civil society gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. And Kraft Foods was there, listening and sharing what we have learnt, and urging action to tackle three of the greatest challenges facing the world today: …
Global meet's call to reverse inefficient farming methods HANOI: Urgent action is needed to reverse inefficient farming methods and boost the world's supply of rice to prevent rising poverty and hunger, experts told a major world rice congress on Tuesday.
A state government-run tea estate in Wayanad has registered record production by introducing free noon meal for its workers. The Priyadarsini Tea Estate has incorporated a tourism component to find resources to feed its 316 tribal workers, majority of them women. The tea estate, spread over 955 acres, was conceived …
Imphal, Oct. 14: Farmers in Manipur were initially happy when the rains began early this year to enable early cultivation. However, they might face starvation next year, as vast tracts of paddy crop have been damaged extensively in the three valley districts of Manipur because of flash floods caused by …
Gargi Parsai India has been ranked 67, much lower than neighbouring China, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal in the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report released on Monday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a United States-based policy think tank. The biggest contributor to the GHI is child …
While India has witnessed 23 per cent reduction in global hunger index (GHI) between 1990 and 2010, its performance is much below rival China whose score has fallen by a huge 48 per cent during the same period. Worse, according to the new GHI released on Monday, India
THE high economic growth in India, unlike in the case of China, has not translated into a rapid reduction of hunger in India, a US-based policy think-tank has said. India ranks 67th in an 84-country ranking and has more hungry people than its neighbouring countries.
New Delhi: Despite witnessing high economic growth during the last few years, India has been ranked below many of its neighbouring countries like China and Pakistan, a global hunger index published on Monday by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said. One of the few economies to register healthy growth …
Ranchi, Oct. 10: Chief minister Arjun Munda today announced a number of measures to fight drought and curb hunger in the state. At a one-day regional meet on drought, Munda declared that farmers would soon get crop insurance policy claims, while the government would provide clean water to every remote …
BY BIRAJ PATNAIK A recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, provides a damning indictment of the role of speculation in food commodities in fuelling the global food crisis. The report
JAIPUR: Global as well as national commitment to reduce malnutrition and hunger as per the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) appears to be falling short of required willpower. At global level, first it was the high food prices and then the escalation in fuel prices, followed by the economic meltdown, which …
The current drought situation in the state has brought in a change in the political scenario of Lalgarh. With hunger looming large, the CPM has managed to regain lost ground with the help of government-sponsored schemes. The civil administration is also looking at reclaiming remote villages with a human face. …
