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 …
Why is the right to food important for the rural and urban poor? How does it help women and children? What are the obligations of States in relation to the right to food? These and other questions are answered in the Fact Sheet on
More than 82 million children are underweight in commonwealth countries, according to Save the Children in a new report, which says that if these children are ever to stand a fair chance of survival
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
About 0.4 million children below 5-year of age and 20,000 mothers died annually in Pakistan due to malnutrition, socio-economic problems and non-access to the health facilities. This was stated by Secretary Health Punjab Fawad Hassan Fawad while addressing a function held in connection with 'Mother and Child Health Week' being …
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 …
Initiation of breast feeding in the first hour of delivery is not happening. KOCHI: Faulty feeding habits and low levels of exclusive breast feeding for children up to six months have resulted in increasing malnutrition in children below three years. Speaking to press persons during the first State conference of …
JAIPUR: Around 22 districts in Rajasthan have been identified as those requiring immediate attention in terms of food security, according to the food security atlas of rural Rajasthan released jointly by the Institute of Human Development and the United Nation's World Food Programme (UNWFP) on Friday. The atlas further mentions …
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS India's growth has failed to reach the poorest of the poor. Focus on industry... has wid ened the bracket of poverty -- Sandeep Chandra AROUND a quarter of the world's population who are deprived of food live in India and 43 per cent of all children …
Rajasthan is under the grip of severe food insecurity with 22 of its 32 districts being labeled as 'most food insecure' in this new study released recently by Institute for Human Development and World Food Programme. India’s western state of Rajasthan is under the grip of severe food insecurity with …
Ranchi, Sept. 8: After Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand is set to become the second state in the country to have dedicated nutritional rehabilitation centres in all the 24 districts, which will provide children with locally available therapeutic food. The initiative follows the 21 malnutrition treatment centres (MTCs) that were set up …
Lawrence Haddad We need to make sure nutrition is not easily neglected. And that means putting pressure on leaders throughout society to focus on nutrition. I have just finished a trip to India to help contribute to the efforts on ending malnutrition. The politicians and media were talking about the …
Yoginder K Alagh This has been the food security week with the NAC and the courts getting into the last lap. The fact that a food security system will be set up is accepted by all and this column has always stood by that. A nation, growing the way India …
Life expectancy in India has increased by nearly 50 per cent since 1960, says India Health Report 2010 by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indicus Analytics.
JAYA JUMRANI, Nikhila Gill As long as the poor remain malnourished, the malnourished will remain poor. Calorie deficits lower worker productivity, which in turn affects national output by as much as 4%. The government enacted the Food Security Act to alleviate hunger in India, a country with more hungry people …
As the government struggles to incorporate nutritional aspects in the proposed right to food legislation, the industry has come forward in support of right to nutrition and offered to engage with the government as partner, the way it got its act together in the 1990s to produce iodine fortified salt.
This report on the world hunger situation warns that many countries are going backwards on crucial hunger pledge, with more people under-nourished than a decade ago. In this scorecard China, ranked second out of the developing countries. This September, leaders are gathering in New York to assess progress on the …
This article reports findings from a survey of anganwadis, undertaken in the tribal region of Gujarat. It was found that services were poorer in the more backward and distant hilly areas than in the plain areas of the region. The coverage of population by anganwadis was not uniform and was …
This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition. Specifically, the paper addresses the following questions: What is the progress in supply side of food in terms of availability at the national level?; How far has India progressed in attaining …
