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 …
Climate change directly affects food security and nutrition. It undermines current efforts to protect the lives and livelihoods and end the suffering of the over 1 billion food insecure people and will increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition by an unprecedented scale within the next decades. Undernutrition is already …
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The four pillars of food security are availability, access, utilization and stability. The nutritional dimension …
Although many millions of people have exited poverty in recent decades, much of the reduction in poverty has benefited people living close to the poverty line rather than those at the very bottom of the income distribution. This book is not focused on poverty per se but rather is focused …
The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean have reduced hunger significantly since 1990, but the …
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and concludes that structural problems of underinvestment have impeded progress toward the World Food Summit goal and the first Millennium Development Goal hunger reduction target. This disappointing state of affairs has been exacerbated by …
United Nations: With over 1 billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was …
The ICDS programme launched in the 1970s was based on the results of extensive surveys which identified rampant child under-nutrition in India. Using the weight-for-age and height-for-age criteria, only 10 per cent children under five could be classified normal. And 15-20 per cent were underweight even when they were short. …
Bibhuti Barik BHUBANESWAR: When it comes for a referral testing of food materials, chemical, medicine or any specific disease-causing agents, we tend to send samples to outside Orissa. However, after opening of the H1N1 testing facility at Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here, it seems, if there is proper coordination …
Gandhinagar: Keeping in view the high percentage of malnourished children in schools, the state government has decided to introduce fortified flour in the mid day meals supplied in government schools. Cabinet spokesperson and health and family welfare minister Jay Narayan Vyas said the fortified flour would be introduced on the …
Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh "economic shock," according to the UN food aid agency. World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff said two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute …
Gandhinagar: The Planning Commission has decided to fund three new schemes to help Gujarat improve its health index, which is low compared to many other states. Planning Commission approved the state
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo GHASIAN MAJHI Over five thousand people in 13 panchayats under Lanjigarh and Bhawanipatna blocks in Orissa, who are choleraaffected, are waging a battle between life and death. 50 adults have perished of cholera in the last one month. , 20, a resident of Miangpadar in the poverty-stricken …
Lawrence Haddad Imagine if three thousand Indians died every day from swine flu. The number is closer to ten a day but the malady still draws media attention. More than three thousand Indians a day die from malnutrition
Civil society and the media are unfairly blaming a government nutrition programme I have been a political journalist for over three decades. Only recently have I become familiar with the nitty gritty of development reporting. The manner in which malnutrition is covered by a section of the media has come …
BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions. A senior doctor …
One of the major factors affecting the health and growth of children in the State is lack of easy accessibility to immunization services. Lack of information regarding nutrition and inaccessibility to nutritious food have also become a matter of concern with more than 50 per cent of children in the …
Malnourished children of the Kolhan division can now bite into their share of healthy and nutritious food with the first therapeutic food processing unit in the country being set up at the anganwadi training centre in Kadma. The unit, where specialised food packets for undernourished children up to five years …
Harda: In order to combat malnutrition among children and expectant mothers, the district administration has been geared up to provide nutrient-enriched packaged food every week at anagnwadis, official sources said today. The scheme would be implemented shortly in which young children and expectant mothers would be benefitted. This hygiene and …
