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 …
- Six malnutrition treatment centres have opened doors in the state since July The state has received six more malnutrition treatment centres, in the past two to three months, that aim to curb the mortality rate among infants. Born in Rajasthan around three years ago, the first malnutrition treatment clinic …
Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. New research commissioned by the ADB shows that if current climate trends persist until 2050, maize yields …
Now the state and students can fight the battle against malnutrition together. Pooja Talikoti, an associate professor with the department of nutrition, University of Rajasthan, who is also associated with Unicef, has decided to bring students of Jamshedpur Women
Alipurduar, Sept. 1: Deaths caused by water-borne diseases continue to haunt the closed Dheklapara Tea Estate with a three-year-old girl dying of jaundice last evening. Pinki Kheria, a resident of Baider line of the garden, was suffering from jaundice and malnutrition, said Sujan Sarkar, the block medical officer of health …
An Act to ensure dignified economic and social access to adequate food and other requirements of good nutrition for all residents of the country, at all times, in pursuance of their fundamental right to be free from hunger, malnutrition and other deprivations associated with the lack of food.
Agriculture in the 21st century faces multiple challenges: it has to produce more food and fibre to feed a growing population, more feedstocks for a potentially huge bioenergy market, contribute to overall development in the many agriculture-dependent developing countries, adopt more sustainable production methods and adapt to climate change.
Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Higher temperatures eventually reduce yields of desirable crops while encouraging weed and pest proliferation. Changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of short-run crop failures and long-run production declines. Although there will be gains in some crops in some regions of the world, …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked the States to put a cap on the number of Below Poverty Line (BPL) beneficiaries under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) for purposes of theproposed National Food Security Bill. It also wants the BPL population identified afresh now, and every five …
Feed malnutrition with policy India has eight million malnourished children. Yet the country has no policy on what food should be given to treat malnutrition. Lack of policy has led international development agencies to adopt varied approaches like giving highly nutritious ready-to-use food. Such measures have often led to confusion …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday favoured a universal public distribution system but added that there could be a multiplicity of vehicles for delivery to have a wider reach and equitable supply of food grains to the needy. Welcoming the United Progressive Alliance government
MUKESH RANJAN To witness abject poverty, as it exists in subSaharan Ethiopia, one need not travel to that country. Similar situation exists in India, as Madhya Pradesh (MP) has human development indicators which match the Ethiopian reality. The state's plan document, which was recently finalised by the Planning Commission, reveals …
New Delhi: In a critical comment on India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the World Bank said robust economic growth and food security alone would not remove the tag of being
World Bank will provide 40,000 US dollar as grant to each of the 20 selected civil society organisations of South Asian countries to address the issue of improving infant and child nutrition. Twenty organizations, which will receive the fund, will be selected from 60 finalists -- 20 from India, 11 …
In order to bring down the incidences of malnutrition in the country, the Women and Child Development Ministry has revised nutritional and feeding norms for the supplementary nutrition programme (SNP) in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. To bridge the gap between the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) and the …
This paper argues that the disproportionate attention that policy solutions to the food price crisis give to rural dwellers is probably misplaced. Although in developing countries rural poverty is often deeper and more widespread than urban poverty, rural dwellers are often net producers of food, frequently of the very staples …
NEW DELHI: As food prices soar to the skies, the poor are eating less and the Government has camouflaged this brand of inflation by combining food with other commodities like steel and metals whose prices are falling, said environment activist Vandana Shiva here on Thursday. Hunger: causes, cures She also …
Pune Even as the country is in the nascent stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child's growth laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently, Purandar taluka in Pune district has taken up a project of monitoring 154 children with
