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 …
AURANGABAD: Highlighting the grim picture of farmers' suicide placed by the NCRB data - stating that so far about 3,08,826 farmers committed suicide from 1995-2014 - representatives of FIAN India, Land and Livelihood Knowledge Activists Hub and Peoples Forum on BRICS said it's high time that BRICS nations focus on …
Lesotho is losing 1.9 billion Maloti (US$200 million) a year to the effects of child undernutrition, according to a new, country-specific Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) study released. This amounts to more than 7 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The money is lost through increased healthcare …
The International Institute for Sustainable Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute joined forces to estimate what it would cost to end hunger, and the contribution that donors need to make. The analysis focused on the cost of ending hunger through increased spending on social safety nets directly targeting …
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Sunday released new standards on fortification on food. The guidelines are meant to regulate the fortification of food, especially packaged food, with essential micronutrients to counter rising malnutrition in the country. Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for Health and Family …
Fresh govt. data shows causes of death include pneumonia, low birth weight, which are linked to malnutrition As the Maharashtra government faces widespread criticism for the malnutrition deaths of four children in Palghar last month, it has now emerged that 47 child deaths were recorded in September. The reasons, including …
The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal deadline of 2030, according to data from the 2016 Global Hunger Index. If hunger declines at the same rate as the report finds it has since 1992, more than 45 countries - including …
Dehradun: In Uttarakhand's battle against malnutrition, mandua and chaulai will now be the frontline warriors. In a first of its kind experiment, the hill state will use locally produced Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to fight malnutrition and anaemia among children and expectant mothers. Uttarakhand, which has around 10 lakh malnourished …
A comprehensive regulation on fortification of food by FSSAI is a important milestone in the country's journey to address malnutrition. Fortification is seen as an important intervention to tackle micronutrient malnutrition. The country has four decades of experience in fortifying salt with iodine that helped that address one of the …
India features prominently in the recently released 2016 Global Nutrition Report. The report focuses on the nutrition-related progress and commitments made globally against malnutrition and identifies opportunities for action, with a particular focus on the commitments and actions necessary to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The report …
Nearly 3 billion people across 193 countries have low-quality diets lacking the required vitamins and minerals and this poses serious health risks while slowing economic and development progress, according to this new report by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition. The Global Panel on Agriculture and …
Sixteen years after Naveen Patnaik assumed the state's reign, Odisha still portrays a story of abject poverty and deprivation. In a reflection of its starving mass, the state has the highest prevalence of undernourished male and under-weight female, the latest Annual Health Survey (AHS) Part II said. According to the …
Devastating floods in North Korea have unleashed a humanitarian crisis that may worsen sharply in the next few weeks, the United Nations World Food Programme said Friday. It said the flooding not only destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, it wiped out a harvest that was still in the ground. …
BHOPAL: Health minister Rustam Singh said that death of eight to 10 children due to malnutrition in Sheopur had occurred over a period of four to five months. Talking to TOI after his visit to Golipura village of Sheopur from where malnutrition deaths have been reported, he said, "Tribals told …
Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 per cent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is on the rise among children, a global aid agency said on Tuesday. A report by Save the Children found that …
he number of "poor" derived by applying price adjustment to an old consumption basket, which is largely what official poverty measures have done, are very different from estimates based on actual consumption baskets that have changed over time. For instance, the share of cereals in household expenditure halved between 1993-94 …
The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Since our Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010), the region has faced …
Itanagar: The prevalence of anaemia continues to be a big challenge in Arunachal Pradesh according to India Health Report (IHR) statistics which show that 63.9% of children under the age of five and 56.7% of women aged 15-49 are anaemic in the state, Meghalaya's additional chief secretary Yeshi Tsering at …
This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such …
Over 1.30 lakh deaths due to climate change have been projected in India with changes in methods of food production, a study conducted by the University of Oxford revealed. The Lok Sabha was informed about the report on Tuesday. "The study conducted by the University of Oxford on 'global and …
