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 …
The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor. At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana
Even States that claim to have impressive economic growth report severe under-nutrition and high infant mortality, particularly among their tribal populations. At an anganwadi centre in Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. STATE OF DENIAL What people outside Madhya Pradesh hear of the State is about the Stupas of Sanchi, the …
Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist. Jean Dreze is a development economist, originally from Belgium but settled in India since 1979. He became an Indian citizen in 2002. Dreze did his PhD in economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, and has since worked on several issues like hunger, …
It was an election promise of the Congress Party. Then, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance came back to power, it was part of its 100-day agenda. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even declared,
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the drive for ending malnutrition in the state should be converted into a mass movement with the cooperation of society. He said that the curse of malnutrition intrigues him the most. Chouhan was addressing a review meeting of Woman and Child Development …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:29 IST Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the recent bulletin of the World Health …
LALIT SHASTR BHOPA The Madhya April 2: The Madhya Pradesh government has a lot to answer about the malnutrition crisis, which acquired a serious dimension after it had been reported that 43 children had died of malnutrition between October and December 2009 in the Meghnagar block of Jhabua district in …
Bhopal: Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath has held the state government responsible for the deaths of 43 children in Jhabua late last year. Ms. Tirath was on a visit to the tribal dominated district to review the aftermath of the alleged malnutrition deaths of 43 children in …
South Asia has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, despite rapid economic growth compared to other regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Known as the
The draft article is the introduction to a symposium issue of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, on climate change and human rights. Global warming is expected to contribute to many human wrongs: disease, malnutrition, flooding of coastal communities. But does every human wrong violate a human right? …
For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme. …
We examine whether access to aspects of social infrastructure, such as toilet facilities, drinking water on the premises and clean cooking fuels, leads to a decline in the incidence of undernutrition among women, which remains quite high in India. The analysis, based on the National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06) unit-level …
This article analyses the comparability of the estimates of child malnutrition emanating from the National Family Health Surveys and the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau. The issue has been highlighted by Deaton and Dr
Hugh Macleod Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total absence of funding. Nearly one in three Yemenis, more than seven million …
This report, which would jointly prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme, illustrates the negative impacts of the global economic crisis on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies opportunities …
