Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with about 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to this report by the United Nations agencies and development groups. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million …
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) now form the backbone of today's economies – providing individuals with access to such vitally important resources as employment opportunities, online banking and healthcare. As such, United Nations leaders have turned to ICTs to fast-forward efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …
Asia and the Pacific, a region with an impressive development track record, will need to step up its overall development reform effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), …
The number of children suffering from acute malnutrition in the areas surrounding Pibor, eastern South Sudan, has trebled in a year and is likely to continue rising, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said. JPEG - 9.5 kb A South Sudanese boy has a MUAC test, designed to detect malnutrition (Photo: ACF-South …
More than 80,000 young children may need treatment for malnutrition in part of western Myanmar where the army cracked down on stateless Rohingya Muslims last year, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Myanmar's security forces launched a counter-offensive in the northern part of Rakhine state after attacks by …
An updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) was released in June, highlighting that food security has deteriorated further in South Sudan. The severely food insecure population has grown to 6 million (from 4.9 million in February) and accounts for about 50 per cent of the total population. An estimated …
Only three of Africa’s 54 countries are considered to have low levels of hunger, says a Global Hunger Index update released in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. According to the report by the African Union and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), based on data from studies in 2015 and …
GOVERNMENT has scaled up its nutrition programme in Mansa aimed at reducing malnutrition levels through implementation of 1,000 ‘Most critical days programme’ (MCDP) under the National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC). Mansa district administrative officer Judith Nyirenda says malnutrition levels in children reduced drastically owing to the efforts the commission …
The National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) says it has introduced a project called Health Improved Partnership (HIP) aimed at reducing malnutrition levels in the most affected rural communities in the country. ZANIS reports that (NFNC) Head of Nutrition, Education and Communication, Eustina Besa disclosed the development in Lundazi District …
MWINILUNGA district has recorded reduced malnutrition levels from 4.2 percent to 1.7 percent since 2015 to date. Mwinilunga district commissioner Daniel Butali attributed the reduction to various interventions Government and various stakeholders are putting in place. Mr Butali was speaking when officials from the Food and Nutrition Commission of Zambia …
Lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are no longer just urban phenomena. Mumbai: Lifestyle diseases such as hypertension and diabetes are no longer just urban phenomena. Researchers have discovered that these diseases are now prevalent even in tribal communities, despite prevalence of low-fat vegetarian diets, high levels of vigorous …
Mumbai: Asking the state government to pay equal attention to tribals, Bombay high court on Monday said the issue of malnutrition deaths was more important than the farmers' issue. A bench of Justices Vidyasagar Kanade and A M Badar was miffed at non-implementation of several orders to take steps to …
Nelson Natukunda, the Local Council (LC) III chairman in Kanungu district says many parents have abandoned their children and most schools are almost being forced to close as they have no food for both the learners and the teachers. New Vision TV has this report - See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1455590/famine-bites-hard-kanungu-district-residents#sthash.7muBmMTU.dpuf
NAIROBI, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With a record-breaking 26.5 million people going hungry in the Horn of Africa, development banks are increasing their humanitarian funding to fill a gap left by traditional donors, a high-level mission said on Tuesday. Food rations for 7.8 million Ethiopians are due to …
About 800 kilometres (500 miles) from Juba, where a new conflict erupted in late 2013, the northern state of Bahr el Ghazal has some of the highest levels of malnutrition in the country. Achol Ri, a one-and-a-half year-old child with severe malnutrition, cries at a clinic run by Doctors Without …
The Post-Crisis Response to Food and Nutrition Insecurity Project was on Thursday launched in The Gambia at a hotel in Senegambia. The US$11.4 million project seeks to support the fight against malnutrition among children under two years in four administrative regions namely; North Bank Region, Lower River Region, Central River …
A recent study by Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) shows that malnutrition, especially in children, does not only affect the health and social lives of a people, but plays a significant impact in the economic relevance of a society. It says many African countries, including Nigeria were beginning to …
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is among the five poorest countries in the world, whether measured by poverty rate or number of poor. Political instability and rapid demographic growth—the second highest in Africa—have driven an increase in the total number of poor that puts extreme pressure on the country’s …
The challenge for IFAD and other development organizations, however, is to ensure that income-focused project designs achieve practical nutritional outcomes on the ground. This report represents a first, and timely, attempt to map IFAD nutrition-sensitive interventions. It provides an in-depth analysis of trends in implementing nutrition mainstreaming in the East …
In recent decades, Ghana has experienced high economic growth and transformation, which contributed to the nation achieving the Millennium Development Goal targets on reducing extreme poverty and hunger. Against this background and in view of achieving the food and nutrition security targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, Ghana started a …
The information was released recently in Benguela by the local nutritional programme supervisor, Flora Vanda, who mentioned 129 cases in equal period last year. Speaking to Angop, Flora Vanda said a large percentage of deaths was owed to patients reaching the hospitals too late and the lack of healing drugs …