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 …
G8 leaders were due to agree a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels at a summit in Italy on Wednesday. Here are some facts about the target, previously adopted by European Union nations and due to be widened to the United States, …
A plan by G8 industrial countries to boost food security through increased farming investment is important and timely, and should not only focus on production but also on addressing hunger and malnutrition, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday. Zoellick, speaking by telephone from Geneva, said the World Bank …
ALOK SHARMA Announcing that the National Food Security Act will soon be enacted finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said that it would help provide 25 kg of rice or wheat per month to the poor at Rs 3 per kg.
The world's almost 400 million Indigenous people have low standards of health. This poor health is associated with poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, poor hygiene, environmental contamination, and prevalent infections. Inadequate clinical care and health promotion, and poor disease prevention services aggravate this situation. Some Indigenous groups, as they move from traditional …
Terming mal nutrition as a major threat to social and economic development, the Economic Survey 2008-09 stressed on the need to modify the existing policies and programmes to tackle the problem Observing that there are major deficiencies in the public distribution system, the Economic Survey has mooted the idea of …
About 50 percent mother and children in Natore are affected with anemia while one third women of Natore district are suffering from long-term malnutrition, creating a sort of threat for a healthy nation. The malnutrition is our national problem and this problem is acute among the children and the women. …
In this background paper, FAO calls for bolds action to address food security crisis. Explains the causes underlying today's food security crisis, the scope of the problem, the prospects for the longer term
The global aid architecture in health has changed over the past decade, with the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and a major expansion of the levels and sources of development assistance, particularly for low-income countries. While key health outcomes such as infant survival and nutritional stunting have improved …
Regardless of the new ban on the Maoists, as long as the Indian government remains better at talking about local-level welfare than doing anything about it, Naxalite rhetoric will continue to find fertile ground.
More than 46,000 people die of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) in Bangladesh each year due to Indoor Air Pollution (IAP), acting country representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Andrew Trevett said Thursday. His findings and those of others set out at a workshop in Dhaka on 15 June …
A study undertaken by a city doctor has found the children of Lucknow not only underweight but also higher in all the other new parameters issued by World Health Organisation (WHO) for estimating malnutrition among kids. The study undertaken by Dr Ali Jafar Abedi of Era Medical College and Hospital …
The initiative made by the State Government in association with Operation Smile to eradicate cleft lip and cleft palate deformities in children deserves appreciation. Assam has a high incidence of children suffering from this disorder, and the high cost of treatment often hinders effective treatment with the result that a …
The successful implementation of NREGA and the Right to Information Act indicates that the climate is conducive for a far-reaching, rights-based legislation to eliminate hunger and deprivation. In its latest election manifesto the Congress pledged to
High levels of income inequality, rapid urbanization, persistent and pervasive social polarization, increasing food prices, a lack of government attention to agriculture and rural development, and the mounting effects of climate change - droughts, floods and cyclones - are just some of the reasons why more than 1 in 5 …
Climate change is claiming 300,000 lives a year and costing the global economy $125bn annually, with the damage set to escalate rapidly, according to the first study of the immediate effects of global warming. A further 300m people around the world are seriously affected by climate change through, for instance, …
The global economic downturn has aggravated human rights violations and distracted attention from abuses, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The world faced a grave danger that "rising poverty and desperate economic and social conditions could lead to political instability and mass violence," the rights group's secretary-general, Irene Khan, wrote in …
