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 structural food crisis in the city of El Alto has had an especially negative impact on the lives of the poorest families. Urban agriculture is one of the alternative strategies initiated to improve their food security, but also to enhance the social inclusion of the women involved, who have …
Jamshedpur: With the state recording an increase in the number of malnourished children, the government has embarked on a project to set up malnutrition treatment centres (MTCs) in the districts on the lines of Rajasthan. The first such centre will start functioning in Ghatshila from mid-December. Another will open in …
The overall aim of this report is to provide information to decision-makers on the optimal design of policies to help reduce premature deaths and illness in children under five years of age. To protect the health, development, and wellbeing of young children, decision-makers must identify and reduce environmental risk factors …
The world population has increased 50 percent over the last half century alone. That is a staggering 3 billion more mouths to feed. Despite a serious backlash during the last year, never before have so many had food to eat. And never before have so many suffered from being overweight …
Despite rapid income growth, South Asia has lagged behind the rest of Asia in reducing poverty and hunger. South Asia accounts for more than two-fifths of the world
The gale of chatter during the current global meltdown has been mainly about the hardships in store for the corporate sector and middle classes. The voice of the poor is too feeble to have been heard in the din. But the release last week of the latest per capita expenditure …
Four others severely malnourished SEVERE malnutrition has claimed the life of a five-year-old boy at a charitable hostel in Jalna in Maharashtra. Four other boys, between five and 11 years of age, are in a serious condition. All the boys are mentally impaired and abandoned by their parents. Doctors at …
By Prasenjit Chowdhury The world's population has continued to grow while its food production has not. The prognosis by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen that India might actually become two countries in economic terms, one with all the pomp and
Aimed at containing the increasing number of malnutrition cases among women and children in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday constituted a high level committee to monitor implementation of government schemes dealing with the subject. The committee, chaired by the Prime Minister himself, consists of Union ministers Arjun …
It was 1995-96 when elections were round the corner, a development saga christened KBK or Kalahandi, Balangir and Koraput Plan was unveiled. Its newer version Revised Long Term Action Plan (RLTAP) for the eight KBK comprising undivided Koraput, Balangir and Kalahandi districts was brought in 1998-99 in a sub-plan mode. …
Children continue to die of malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh despite the strict instructions of the Bhopal high court to contain malnutrition deaths in some of the most backward districts of the state. This was found by a fact-finding team by a group of NGOs in Satna and Sheopur districts which …
THE final five kilometres to Ramnagar (Khokla), as the village is officially called, in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh has to be done on foot down a hill thick with shrubs and bushes. As we enter the village, eager eyes scan us for food or some other kind of livelihood …
More than 15 per cent of the children, living in the camps set up by the government for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Bajaur tribal region, are suffering from malnutrition. According to a preliminary report of a survey by the United Nations (UN), prevalence of the global acute malnutrition …
