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 …
Meena Menon Her name is also Kalavati. It is very unlikely though she will have any famous visitor in her humble hut at Mansudhavadi village of Dharni taluk in Amravati district. In March this year, when Kalavati Javarkar gave birth to her second child, a daughter, her one-year-old son Shubham …
Country's more than 40 percent children aged under five years and one-third of mothers suffer from malnutrition, a nutrition specialist of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) said here on Monday. Describing the country's nutrition status at a seminar on mainstreaming nutrition, Head of Nutrition Programme of the …
Life is grim for the tribals living in the reserve forest areas of the country, who face pressure from corrupt officials on one hand, and the environment lobby on the other.
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 …
