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 …
This latest World Disasters Report focuses on hunger and malnutrition, analyses the causes and impacts of this growing crisis and advocates solutions at community, national and international levels. This World Disasters Report focuses on the growing crisis of hunger and malnutrition. Smallholder farmers who produce half the world’s food are …
Taking suo moto cognisance of the deaths of infants due to malnutrition in Nashik district of Maharashtra, the Bombay High Court has asked the government to design an action plan to tackle the situation. Media reports say over 600 tribal children have so far died due to malnutrition in the …
The number of young children who die each day has plunged over the past two decades, new United Nations figures show, but the world is still lagging far behind in efforts to achieve its target for reducing child mortality. Child mortality rates are dropping in every region of the world, …
Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number of children suffering from mal nutrition in the country. A recent data released by the central government says the children of MP have the least average weight and suffer from mal nutrition in the India. A total of sixty per cent kids were found …
- CM announces Bachpan Bachao Andolan, separate nutrition council The war against malnutrition received a boost on Wednesday with chief minister Arjun Munda announcing to start Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a special drive for children. He also said that the state nutrition council would be set up. “Jharkhand ranks second in …
The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, an international health research institution in Dhaka, will provide its help to famine-hit people to fight cholera in Somalia. A expert-team from ICDDR,B reached Kenya on September 1 to assist the international community in managing cholera outbreak in neighbouring Somalia. Initially based …
Aimed at helping the famine-hit people of Somalia fight cholera, a team of experts from International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) reached neighbouring Kenya on September 1. Initially based in northern Kenya, the team hopes to travel to Mogadishu later this week, said a press release from ICDDR,B, …
Nairobi: Famine spread to a sixth southern Somalia region and will likely extend further in the coming four months, the United Nations said today. “Acute malnutrition and the rate of crude mortality have surpassed famine thresholds in the Bay region of southern Somalia,” the UN Somalia Food Security Nutrition Analysis …
The United Nations announced Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up. Somalis lined up for food at a camp for the displaced south of Mogadishu. …
Out of 102,692 children aged zero to six, 779 are in severe malnutrition category Four-year-old Pravin Maskare has spent a fortnight at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Gondia where his weight increased to 8.3 kg. Even that is far from the ideal, but his mother is unwilling to let …
Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happen, the state has to come up with an appropriate and effective bill on food and nutrition …
African countries and donors pledged more than $350 million Thursday at a fund-raiser in the Ethiopian capital to help millions facing starvation in the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades. The African Development Bank offered $300 million to fund long-term projects, while African states and other private donors pledged …
Famine is set to spread to two new southern Somali regions with millions of people reeling from extreme drought, the top UN humanitarian aid official for the war-torn nation warned on Wednesday. "We are anticipating that two more areas of southern Somalia will be included," Mark Bowden, the UN Humanitarian …
Touching up on the sensitive issue of land acquisition, the Prime Minister said that land acquisition must be transparent and fair. "Our Government wants to replace the 117-year-old land acquisition law by a new forward looking and balanced law in this connection. Land acquisition is no doubt necessary for projects …
The ready-to-eat food market players such as ITC and MTR could get access to a much larger market if the proposed draft Food Security Bill, as cleared by the EGoM, has its way. However, this move has been criticised by economists and activists, who point out that the Government is …
The United Nations declared three new regions in Somalia to be famine zones on Wednesday, expanding the area where the highest rates of malnutrition and deaths are taking place, including the refugee camps in the capital of Mogadishu. Two other areas had earlier been declared famine zones, and the United …
Terming the draft Food Security Bill as a ‘farce', the National Advisory Council (NAC) member, Ms Aruna Roy, economist Prof Jean Dreze (ex-NAC), civil liberties activist, Dr Binayak Sen, and others have written an open letter to the Prime Minister. The former and present NAC members, along with civil society …
Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to an interactive map published on Wednesday. Pakistan was adjudged to be more undernourished than Tanzania (35 per cent), Niger …
To ward off any threat of huge grain imports on the government’s account in the event of drought or natural calamity, the draft Food Security Bill proposes to pay through cash or vouchers in lieu of grains or cooked meals to targeted beneficiaries. According to the draft bill recently cleared …
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by …
