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 …
PAWAN BALI Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said on Monday that there is need to see that the high food prices doesn't lead to starvation of relatively poor people. He said that the general priority should be not only to look at the overall performance of the economy but also to …
The World Food Programme chief has lamented the severity of world hunger and said her biggest dream is to see no child goes hungry. Worldwide, 1.02 billion people or one in six of the world
Gavin Wall Hunger is not only due to a lack of production; it is also a result of human-made policy choices. Efforts to reduce hunger will require a review of the way society is organised, its economic and social policies, the functioning of institutions and the allocation of resources. WITH …
Lester R Brown As the number of hungry people rise, so too has the number of failing states If China can no longer grow enough wheat and rice to feed its 1.3 billion people and goes shopping for massive quantities of grain, global food costs will rise dramatically AS the …
The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its responsibility to the vision of …
by Rachel Shields GM crops have a role to play in preventing mass starvation across the world caused by a combination of climate change and rapid population growth, a scientist has said. Professor Robert Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), called …
A rally has been organised on November 25 in Bangalore demanding a hunger-free State, said Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), State-unit president N L Bharatraj. Speaking at a press conference at Patrakartara Sangha in the City on Thursday, he said 35 kg of food grain at Rs 2 per …
Washington: The number of Americans who lived in households that lacked consistent access to adequate food soared last year, to 49 million, the highest since the government began tracking what it calls
United Nations: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people worldwide, his spokesperson Marie Okabe has said. Mr. Ban, who observed the fast this weekend, days ahead of the World Food Summit in Rome, will deliver a speech at the …
Rome: Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by Unicef before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger. The head of a UN food agency called on the world to join him in a …
He Changchui The Third World Summit on Food Security will be held next week in Rome -- from November 16 to 18 NEVER IN THE history of mankind have so many people been so hungry. Despite rapid development, modern technology and burgeoning international trade, today an estimated 1.02 billion people …
KOCHI: Renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here on Monday that the present draft of the Food Security Act would not provide food security. Delivering the Sarada-Krishna-Satgamaya Foundation lecture on
This new report by WFP details impact of climate change on hunger in developing countries. Predicts that by 2050 the number of people at risk of hunger as a result of climate change is expected to increase by 10 to 20 percent more than would be expected without climate change. …
A study conducted by a city-based NGO, Calcutta Samiratans, revealed that most of the KMC-run schools and the state-run primary schools do not provide mid-days meals to the children. The study covered 11 KMC and state-run schools in the city. Mrs Reshmi Ganguly, co-ordinator of Calcutta Samaritans said one of …
LUCKNOW: The recent starvation deaths of leopards in UP could be the latest manifestation of deteriorating forest quality. A four-month-old leopard cub died in June this year while another cub, about a-year-and-a-half old, died on Tuesday while it was undergoing treatment at Lucknow zoo. While the first death was reported …
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tons of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country
