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 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called upon various governments to closely work with the Convention to Combat Desertification, a body fighting for reversal of dryland degradation. "The most effective actions for preventing dryland degradation are often the same actions needed to protect biological diversity or minimise the risk …
If a team of US researchers at Cornell University, New York are to be believed. 40 per cent of all deaths world-wide is due to environmental pollution. Global warming could worsen this scenario, they say. David Pimentel and 11 graduate students investigated the relationship. Between increasing pollution levels and' population …
Food shortages and advanced malnutrition have taken their toll in Sudan, the African nation where famine is nothing new. International aid agencies have estimated that so far 1.5 million people have died of starvation and fighting across Sudan. The toll from hunger in Ajiep, a Sudanese village, alone quadrupled over …
There is something seriously wrong with the mindset of India's bureaucrats. The Centre for Science and Environment had made a complaint to the Election Commis-sion that the manner in which the Bhartiya Janata Party (bjp) government in Delhi had given in to the Congress (i) antics on the phasing out …
standing on a reforested hill, flush with the first gossamer green buds of spring, Stanislav Stys, an expert on land reclamation, gazes out across the city of Most in northern Bohemia, the Czech Republic. European blackbirds rummage through the forest litter for tasty insects, while overhead in the leafy canopy, …
as populations in developing countries continue to grow straining inadequate resources, another part of the world is facing a different problem. Russia's population is falling relentlessly, giving rise to fears of a demographic disaster in the making. A study conducted recently by the Population Research Service ( prs ), a …
Northern Kenya is again facing the onslaught of droughts, having received scant rain in the last two years. The tell-tale signs are growing malnutrition, rising grain prices and falling cattle prices. The government of Kenya has been too slow to acknowledge the crisis. Only recently did it ask for help …
The beleaguered people of Central Africa are in for more trouble. The Food and Agricultural Organization ( fao ) has warned that the strife-torn countries in this region will have to increase their food production up to sevenfold by the year 2050 to feed its people. Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi …
" every man, woman and child has the inalienable right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their physical and mental faculties'
IF THE children of India are any indication of the future health of the country, there may be a dark tomorrow in store for it. The Progress of Nations Report, 1996, released recently by the Government of India and the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, reports that as many as …
Famine and mass starvation are looming large over the nation's 22 million inhabitants. Nearly 2.1 million children and half a million pregnant women across the country are at risk of malnutrition. Food supply for coal miners and others doing heavy work has been cut into half. Medical services across the …
While malnutrition stays with us in a big way, the quantity of arable land per capita is diminishing rapidly. Africa's population has increased from just under 300 million in 1970, to over 500 million in 1990. The number of malnourished rose from 101 million to 168 million people. The speed …
In Angola, 95 children are dying everyday. Not from bullets or mines, but from disease and malnutrition. The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has come up with this shocking fact. Thousands of Angolan children lost one or both parents during the 19-year-long civil war between Unita rebels and government …
Development can spawn curious offspring. The prospect of involving rural women in a refresher course on the importance of maintaining vegetable gardens surely qualifies as one of these. And that's precisely what Growing Together, a 28-minute film by Joss Brooks, purports to do. But this anecdote hides a larger irony. …
THE Indian diet has always provided much food for thought. The 1994 UNICEF report, The Progress of Nations, prescribes adequate food along with the control of disease as essential weapons to fight malnutrition. Debates on the Indian diet date back to the 19th century. There were 2 areas of colonial …
They do not always make it to the front pages or to the television screen, yet every minute disease and malnutrition kills nearly 24 of them. According to the report, The State of the World's Children 1994, released by the United Nations International Children's Educational Fund, over 13 million children …
INDIA has 12 million blind people and about 8 million people who are sightless in one eye. The main causes of this disability are nutritional deficiency and lack of health education -- blindness can be prevented and cured. "Eye diseases associated with malnutrition are more common in the south than …
You have talked at length on sustainable development. But your conception of sustainability seems to be incompatible with development. Could you explain? For me, sustainable development is an oxymoron. Development with a capital D has for 40 years meant economic development. But in as much as development means giving a …
TRADITIONALLY, Indian women have played the role of health care providers. But the reality of their own health is quite a different matter. Adverse sex ratios, higher rates of malnutrition and lower hospital admissions among women in India stand as a sad testimony to the state of their health care. …
