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 …
In a shocking and distressing revelation Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday long term malnutrition was as high 41 per cent in Nuwara Eliya with the short term malnutrition was at 11 per cent and called for a sharp change in food patterns among Sri Lankans. He said malnutrition and …
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today lamented that most of the current government programmes lacked a proper evaluation mechanism. "We need to assess the impact of government programmes in a more accurate manner and cannot just say that over a period of time the programme has changed lives, …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, the percentage of men suffering from anaemia is 25 per cent, which is making adverse affect on their health and productivity, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition's (GAIN), South Asia head Rajan Sankar said here on Monday. According to the National Family Health Survey 3, around 21% men …
Eight pregnant women enrolled under ICDS scheme also died last year, reveals RTI reply As many as 775 children and eight pregnant women, enrolled in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme of the Delhi government under which nutritious food and health facilities are provided to underprivileged women and children, …
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children under five years in age are chronically undernourished. As new investments and attention galvanize action on African agriculture to reduce hunger, there is an urgent need for metrics that monitor agricultural progress beyond calories produced per capita and address nutritional diversity essential for human …
Bhopal: The Woman and Child Development Department has chalked out a special action plan for an effective check on malnutrition in the state. Under the action plan, an animation film will be shown at all the Anganwadi centres from June 15. The animation film produced by UNICEF aims at reducing …
Press report of the meeting held on June 14th at Sr.Helen hall, Stella Maris college following lectures by Dr. Veena Shatrugna, National Adviser on Nutrition to the Supreme Court Commissioner on Food Security and Dr.Suresh, Supreme Court appointed Adviser for Tamil Nadu to the Supreme Court commissioner on Food Security.
National Nutrition Month begins today (03). The Health Ministry said that the National Programme would be held in Nuwara Eliya, as the district had recorded the highest ratios of low birth weight, maternal mortality rate and stunting rate in the country. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said on Thursday …
India is confronted with an agrarian crisis and mass hunger, despite producing enough food to feed itself. This paper argues that the country needs urgent action to protect the universal right to food, prioritize land reforms, and sustainably revive agrarian productivity.
This draft national food security bill approved by the National Advisory Council legalises PDS as the approach for implementing the provisions of food security and calls for improved storage and doorstep delivery of grain to the targeted PDS outlets. As agreed by the NAC at its meeting on July 14th, …
Today, the world produces enough to feed all seven billion of its inhabitants – but nearly a billion people still go without. This paper is about why this global scandal continues, and what can be done to solve it. Its central argument is that access to food is as important …
This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion. Behind each of these, slow-burn crises smoulder: creeping and insidious climate change, growing inequality, chronic hunger and vulnerability, the erosion of our natural resources.
The challenge of feeding a growing population of 9 billion by 2050 requires collaboration across all stakeholders on a scale never seen before and it has to start now, according to the DuPont Advisory Committee on Agriculture Innovation and Productivity for the 21st Century. The committee released a report detailing …
The Planning Commission’s definition of poverty is inexplicableIn the urban sprawl that is Delhi, as in any other metro in the country, earning no more than Rs 25 per day with a family to support would prove nightmarish. Food and clothes have to be bought, there may be school-going children, …
There are a number of assumptions required to estimate actual calories consumed from expenditure data regarding calories contained in processed foods and meals eaten outside the household. Ideally, estimates of calorie consumption and the assessment of food security would be similar under a wide variety of assumptions, and the range …
The remote far western Nepal again stands on the brink of a serious food crisis as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday that it is going to stop distributing food to nearly a million people in the region because of funding shortfalls. WFP spokeswoman Christina Hobbs told AFP …
In the hue and cry over minimum wages under NREGS, battle lines have been drawn between those who favour central government hiking minimum wage rates to the state minimum, and others asserting that the two must be delinked. While the former invoke
