Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished

News 18  

India’s malnutrition rates have improved in recent years, but the country is still home to the largest number of stunted children in the world. This year, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has likely reversed the progress made towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition. The 2020 Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals report saw an increase in hunger, inter-and intra-country inequality and accelerated climate change, leading to irreversible consequences. The recent report on the ‘Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region’ highlights the threat from climate change—increased floods and cyclones, and its adverse effects on the economy, food security and public health. Several other measures like ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme to avail food grains under the National Food Security Act could benefit the migrant workers who have no fixed home.

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Drive to eliminate global hunger by 2030 has stalled, UN warns
5 months ago

Drive to eliminate global hunger by 2030 has stalled, UN warns

Al Jazeera  

About 733 million people faced hunger in 2023 due to conflicts, climate change and economic crises, a UN report says. A goal to eliminate global hunger by 2030 looks increasingly impossible to achieve as the number of people suffering chronic hunger has barely changed over the past year, a UN report says. The annual State of Food Security and Nutrition …

About 282 million people faced acute hunger last year: UN-led report
8 months ago

About 282 million people faced acute hunger last year: UN-led report

Al Jazeera  

Gaza, Sudan and other conflicts – along with extreme weather and economic shocks – worsened food insecurity, says new report calling the global outlook ‘bleak’ for this year. 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 United Nations agencies and development …

Road to zero hunger
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Road to zero hunger

China Daily  

Food security in China and the world in 2023 and outlook for 2024 GUO DEWEI/FOR CHINA DAILY China's grain output rose to a record high of 695.41 million metric tons in 2023, the ninth consecutive year China has registered a grain harvest of over 650 million tons and the 20th consecutive bumper harvest year. Looking at global food security in …

"Unnecessary and unacceptable": Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024
1 year ago

"Unnecessary and unacceptable": Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024

Salon  

Just a few days before Thanksgiving, new data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey showed that nearly 28 million people reported experiencing food scarcity in October — both the highest number of 2023 and the highest number recorded by the survey since December 2020. Food insecurity experts deemed that prospect a “looming hunger cliff” — and again and again …

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Unanswered questions, lessons learnt and ongoing challenges

Firstpost  

The COVID-19 pandemic that impacted all aspects of human life, quite literally cancelled the planet. Was any internal advice given to the Government of India that the mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna were better, despite the fact that they were significantly more expensive and difficult to administer? Covishield, developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca in the UK, is similar to previous …

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Global Report on the Food Crises 2023 released recently estimated that between 691 million and 783 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2022. The GRFC is produced by the Food Security Information Network in support of the Global Network against Food Crises, and involves 16 partners to achieve a joint consensus-based assessment …

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022
1 year, 7 months ago

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022

Associated Press  

ROME — More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year because of conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The report found that that the number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food aid — 258 million — …

A hunger crisis sparked by Covid rages on three years into the pandemic. Here’s how you can give or get help
1 year, 9 months ago

A hunger crisis sparked by Covid rages on three years into the pandemic. Here’s how you can give or get help

CNN  

CNN — With the third anniversary of the Covid-19 outbreak, the secondary pandemic of hunger still looms for many Americans. That doesn’t mean they’re able to achieve self sufficiency.” According to Feeding America, in 2020, as the pandemic took root, 60 million people – almost 1 in 6 Americans– turned to the charitable food system for help. Demand never let …

Road to a malnutrition-free India
1 year, 11 months ago

Road to a malnutrition-free India

The Hindu  

Malnutrition continues to be a major challenge in India 75 years after independence and we need concerted action around it. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s report on Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 puts the number of undernourished people in India in 2019-21 at 224.3 million, i.e., 16% of a 1.4 billion population. The latest round of …

How can we end the hunger pandemic?
2 years ago

How can we end the hunger pandemic?

Al Jazeera  

As 2022 comes to a close, we are facing a food crisis worse than any other in recent memory. The combined consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change, from disrupted supply chains and soaring inflation to extreme weather events, gradually left millions of people all over the world unable to put food on their tables. …

COVID-19 reshaped the way we buy, prepare and consume food
2 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 reshaped the way we buy, prepare and consume food

The Hindu  

In early 2020, as province after province in Canada declared public health emergencies, and pandemic restrictions came into force, routine grocery runs changed dramatically. As shown in our upcoming research, more than three-quarters of our survey respondents expressed an increased desire to support local food retailers compared to 2019. Major societal changes like restaurant closures, home schooling and teleworking came …

Why does South Asia have the highest levels of hunger in the world? | In Focus podcast
2 years, 2 months ago

Why does South Asia have the highest levels of hunger in the world? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

This year’s Global Hunger Index, a peer-reviewed annual report that tracks hunger at the “global, regional, and country levels,” has shown South Asia, and India in particular, as a hunger hot spot. India, whose child-wasting rate of 19.3% was the highest of any country, was ranked below countries such as Pakistan, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Sudan. In the Global Hunger Index …

Food day as a reminder to ‘leave no one behind’
2 years, 2 months ago

Food day as a reminder to ‘leave no one behind’

The Hindu  

Globally, food and nutrition security continue to be undermined by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, spiralling food inflation, conflict, and inequality. Better nutrition This year’s World Food Day is a reminder to ‘Leave No One Behind’ — and is an opportunity, perhaps the most urgent one in recent history, for nations to strengthen food security nets, provide …

World Food Day 2022: Leaving no one behind
2 years, 2 months ago

World Food Day 2022: Leaving no one behind

Hindustan Times  

Agrifood systems face multiple challenges - the ongoing pandemic, climate risks, rising prices and international conflicts. While safeguarding food security and nutrition, the crucial need to reshape agrifood systems in order to not leave anyone behind is critical. The World Food Day, observed annually on October 16, is an important reminder to re-commit to plans and actions driving better production, …

Lancet report highlights 'massive global failures' in COVID-19 response
2 years, 3 months ago

Lancet report highlights 'massive global failures' in COVID-19 response

The Hindu  

Widespread, global failures at multiple levels in the COVID-19 response led to millions of preventable deaths and reversed progress made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in many countries, according to a new Lancet COVID-19 Commission report. The Commission critically considers the global response to the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing widespread failures of prevention, transparency, rationality, …

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis
2 years, 4 months ago

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis

Al Jazeera  

Millions of lives are at stake and the world’s most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time. Even before the war, hunger and malnutrition were on the rise globally, with an unacceptable 823 million people going hungry in 2021 according to the recent edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report by five United …

Why UN global hunger report figures are staggering: 150 million added post Covid
2 years, 5 months ago

Why UN global hunger report figures are staggering: 150 million added post Covid

Hindustan Times  

Even since coronavirus hit the world, over 150 million people have been added to the list of those affected by hunger, a new report by the United Nations has revealed. The goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030 remains a far cry with the latest UN global hunger report revealing that 828 million people - across the …

UN: Record 193 million people faced food insecurity in 2021
2 years, 7 months ago

UN: Record 193 million people faced food insecurity in 2021

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 193 million people in 53 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2021, a jump of 40 million compared with 2020. The number of people without enough to eat on a daily basis has reached an all-time high last year and is poised to hit “appalling” new levels as the Ukraine war affects global food production, the United Nations said. …

As a result of COVID-19, more people are experiencing food insecurity — and community services are stepping in to help
2 years, 7 months ago

As a result of COVID-19, more people are experiencing food insecurity — and community services are stepping in to help

ABC  

Annette Formosa never thought she would need to rely on her local community in Sydney's western suburbs to ensure there was enough food on the table. Key points: One in six Australian adults experienced food insecurity in 2021, according to Foodbank Of those, almost 40 per cent had not experienced food insecurity prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Community services in …

Post-Pandemic Food Trends to Formulate a New Lifestyle For Indians
2 years, 8 months ago

Post-Pandemic Food Trends to Formulate a New Lifestyle For Indians

News 18  

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has finally enhanced the habit of eating healthy and prioritising our health. Let’s take a look at the new post-pandemic food trends: Plant-based meals There are so many affordable plant-based foods available in the market that are always at the top of healthy food trends. With people shifting from an animal-based diet to a plant-based diet, …

COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes
3 years ago

COVID-19 spike worsens Africa’s severe poverty, hunger woes

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The ECA now warns that the economic effects already …

The Future of Nutrition in India
3 years, 2 months ago

The Future of Nutrition in India

Hindustan Times  

Nutrition is a critical, if not an essential part of the health and development of society and the country. The Anganwadi Services Scheme provides universal coverage to all children upto 6 years of age; pregnant women and lactating mothers and out of school adolescent girls for key services including provision of supplementary nutrition. POSHAN tracker is a digital tool used …

Alarming hunger or statistical artefact?
3 years, 2 months ago

Alarming hunger or statistical artefact?

The Hindu  

This year’s Global Hunger Index did not go down well with the government. Had the GHI been estimated using the latest data on calorie intake, usually provided by the National Sample Survey Office, things might have looked even worse given that the leaked report of 2019 indicated that consumption expenditure in India declined between 2011-12 and 2017-18 by 4%. Tackling …

World Food Day 2021: An indispensable march to ending hunger
3 years, 2 months ago

World Food Day 2021: An indispensable march to ending hunger

Hindustan Times  

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. Last month’s UN Food Systems Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, mapped out the broad outlines of how the world needs to move forward to transform agri-food systems. A groundbreaking World Food Forum was successfully convened here in the Italian capital early this month, powered by the …

World Food Day 2021: Healthy Eating Tips During COVID-19 Pandemic
3 years, 2 months ago

World Food Day 2021: Healthy Eating Tips During COVID-19 Pandemic

News 18  

Intake of the right nutrition to ensure a healthy body is of paramount importance. As the world is going through a pandemic situation wherein one of the best ways to battle the coronavirus is to build a strong immunity, we must follow a very healthy diet and maintain impeccable food hygiene. On the occasion of World Food Day today, October …

Global Hunger Index 2021: India slips to 101st rank; behind Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh
3 years, 2 months ago

Global Hunger Index 2021: India slips to 101st rank; behind Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh

Firstpost  

The report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe, termed the level of hunger in India “alarming” New Delhi: India has slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Eighteen countries, including China, …

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official
3 years, 2 months ago

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official

The Hindu  

Arjan De Wagt, Head, Nutrition, UNICEF India speaks to The Hindu’s Bindu Shajan Perappadan on how high levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague the country, and the impact COVID-19 has had on the gains India has made in economic and human development in recent decades. Some data has been gathered from telephone surveys, community assessments and …

Lessons from India’s food security response
3 years, 4 months ago

Lessons from India’s food security response

The Hindu  

With a reduction in COVID-19 infections as the second wave weakens in India, it is important to focus on the pandemic’s disruptive impact on the food security and livelihoods of the poor and marginalised. While the pandemic’s impact has yet to be fully mapped, a multi-agency report, ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’, estimates that around …

Winning the Covid-19 Battle in Rural India: A Blueprint for Action
3 years, 5 months ago

Winning the Covid-19 Battle in Rural India: A Blueprint for Action

Hindustan Times  

As India welcomed 2021, the country was reporting less than 15,000 new Covid-19 cases per day between mid-January and mid-February. Two of India’s largest and most populous states – Uttar Pradesh and Bihar—have also witnessed a steep rise in Covid-19 cases in their rural districts. Given the severe shortage of medical facilities in rural India, managing the spread of the …

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN

News 18  

The coronavirus pandemic caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report released on Monday found, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food. The “economic downturns as a consequence of Covid-19 containment measures all over the world have contributed to one of the largest increases in world …

Food-borne Diseases Costing India Almost $15 Billion Annually: Harsh Vardhan
3 years, 6 months ago

Food-borne Diseases Costing India Almost $15 Billion Annually: Harsh Vardhan

News 18  

As food chains become longer, complex and globalised, contamination of food leading to food-borne diseases is a growing concern, costing India almost $15 billion annually, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday. He said this while virtually attending the World Food Safety Day celebrations organised by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, a statement issued by the …

COVID-19 Stories: The trails and trials of the pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 Stories: The trails and trials of the pandemic

Hindustan Times  

US Diaries is a collection of stories written by Indian-Americans. Governments around the world brought in travel restrictions and new health directives, and for the first time I felt pangs for home. I lived in a house with three generations living under the same roof, but work and life has brought us so many air miles away from home. I …

Millions staring at famine as food insecurity soars: Report
3 years, 7 months ago

Millions staring at famine as food insecurity soars: Report

Al Jazeera  

Food insecurity and its impacts have been exacerbated in part by the coronavirus pandemic, a new report has found. Food insecurity in the world’s poorest countries reached record highs in 2020, with millions staring at famine, a situation exacerbated in part by the COVID pandemic, according to a UN report. From Haiti to Syria, some 155 million people across 55 …

Covid-19 Disrupted Food Security For Millions; Will Likely Reverse Progress on Ending Hunger by 2030: Dr Harsh Vardhan
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 Disrupted Food Security For Millions; Will Likely Reverse Progress on Ending Hunger by 2030: Dr Harsh Vardhan

News 18  

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the food security and nutrition for millions of people around the world, and will likely reverse the progress made towards ending hunger by 2030, Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has said. Addressing the 54th Commission on Population and Development on the theme Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development’ here …

COVID-19 impact: Indian households spent more on food, less on healthcare during first lockdown
3 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 impact: Indian households spent more on food, less on healthcare during first lockdown

Firstpost  

One year on, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to linger. The figure below illustrates a box plot of changes in total household expenditures between June 2019 and June 2020 using the CPDx household survey data. In June 2020, data shows a 1 percent further reduction in the overall share of health expenditures in the total for both rural …

COVID-19 and the risk of intergenerational malnutrition
4 years ago

COVID-19 and the risk of intergenerational malnutrition

Al Jazeera  

The calendar is about to turn the page over to a new year and that new year brings hope for a world currently gripped by a pandemic that has wreaked havoc for months. Third, the health crisis and the related lockdowns have led to reduced access to health and nutrition services and limited health resources have been diverted to front-line …

Thousand days of nutrition, and a billion dreams
4 years ago

Thousand days of nutrition, and a billion dreams

The Hindu  

How far India goes in realising its billion plus dreams over the next decade or two will be determined by how well it nourishes the physical well-being and mental potential of its people, particularly its children. The country has been making progress on nutrition for the last two decades, but it was after the Prime Minister launched the Prime Minister’s …

Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger
4 years ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Pay heed to shadow pandemic of hunger

Deccan Chronicle  

More than 1.3 lakh people have died in India since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Without this minimal package, we are unlikely to be able to stave off hunger and starvation in urban areas,” says Biraj Patnaik, executive director of the National Foundation for India and formerly the principal adviser to the commissioners of the Supreme Court in the …

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report
4 years, 1 month ago

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report

The Hindu  

The National Nutrition Mission or the Poshan Abhiyaan — the world’s largest nutrition programme for children and mothers — must be stepped up in order to meet the targets set by the Centre to reduce stunting, wasting, and anaemia by 2022, warns a report by NITI Aayog with only a little over a year left to reach its goals. We …

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least

News 18  

With millions on the brink of famine in four nations, women and girls will be hardest hit due to cultural beliefs and COVID-19’s economic impacts, the charity CARE said on Wednesday. “There is a huge risk that millions of women and girls around the world are already going hungry,” Sarah Fuhrman, a humanitarian policy specialist with CARE, told the Thomson …

No great escape: The Hindu Editorial on India’s low rank on nutritional indices
4 years, 2 months ago

No great escape: The Hindu Editorial on India’s low rank on nutritional indices

The Hindu  

India’s poor progress on nutritional indices must dispel the hubris surrounding strong economic growth for years, and turn national focus on persisting hunger, wasting and stunting among children. This year’s Global Hunger Index places India in the company of Sudan — rank 94 among 107 countries — with the unedifying assessment of the national situation as “serious”. Strengthening the PDS, …

India Fares Worse Than Its Neighbours on Global Hunger Index as Covid-19 Undermines Food Security
4 years, 2 months ago

India Fares Worse Than Its Neighbours on Global Hunger Index as Covid-19 Undermines Food Security

News 18  

Faring much worse than its neighbours, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Myanmar, India ranks 94th on the World Hunger Index for this year. India’s hunger level was found to be “serious”, with a score of 27.2, according to the report jointly released by Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide on Friday. We need to develop a universal framework starting …

2020 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, World Food Programme, is Waging War Against Hunger in the Pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

2020 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, World Food Programme, is Waging War Against Hunger in the Pandemic

News 18  

Earlier this month, the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its initiatives to fight hunger and facilitate better conditions for promoting peace in conflict-affected areas. Recognising this close association of hunger and conflict, the Nobel committee decided to confer the ‘Peace prize’ on World Food Programme for their work on hunger. “This new report exposes …

Stopping a Covid-19 generation of stunted children essential
4 years, 2 months ago

Stopping a Covid-19 generation of stunted children essential

Hindustan Times  

The take-home rations programme under the Integrated Child Development Scheme was halted for the first three weeks after the lockdown, following which the government and partners swung into action to ensure they reached beneficiaries, which are upwards of 70 million children and 17-19 million women. Under the take-home ration programme, energy-dense micronutrient fortified extruded blended food is given to children …

Billionaires should help fight hunger amid Covid-19, says UN
4 years, 3 months ago

Billionaires should help fight hunger amid Covid-19, says UN

The Independent  

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Underprivileged Children, Lactating Mothers Hit Badly Due To Covid-19; PIL Before SC Seeks Formulation Of New Covid Centric Nutrition Strategy [Read Petition]
4 years, 3 months ago

Underprivileged Children, Lactating Mothers Hit Badly Due To Covid-19; PIL Before SC Seeks Formulation Of New Covid Centric Nutrition Strategy [Read Petition]

Live Law  

A public interest litigation has been filed before the Supreme Court of India seeking directions for formulation of a uniform Covid-19 centric nutrition strategy for underprivileged children and lactating mothers who have been badly hit due to closure of schools and Anganwadis and also due to reverse migration. The PIL states- "The closure of government schools and Anganwadis during the …

Volunteers feed COVID-19 patients, doctors in Nepal hospital
4 years, 3 months ago

Volunteers feed COVID-19 patients, doctors in Nepal hospital

Associated Press  

KATHMANDU, Nepal — From his pharmacy outside Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Bikram Bhadel saw what happened when coronavirus lockdowns closed the facility’s cafeteria and nearby cafes. “Every day I watched the patients, their families, doctors and other health workers struggling to get a good meal,” Bhadel said. And with the help of his friend Indra Kumar Newar -- a taxi …

FAO Meet: India Promises Support for Stable Global Food Supply amid Covid-19 Crisis
4 years, 3 months ago

FAO Meet: India Promises Support for Stable Global Food Supply amid Covid-19 Crisis

News 18  

India on Tuesday assured support in ensuring “stable” global food supply through its agri-export policy amid concerns over food security in South Asia following the COVID-19 outbreak. Agriculture Commissioner S K Malhotra assured the participating countries that “India will support in ensuring stable global food supply through its agri-export policy.” He added that India has achieved record foodgrain production and …

Strong Immunity Key for Fighting Covid-19, Says Health Min Harsh Vardhan
4 years, 4 months ago

Strong Immunity Key for Fighting Covid-19, Says Health Min Harsh Vardhan

News 18  

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said people with poor immunity are more vulnerable to contracting coronavirus infections and stressed on the need to boost the immune system by eating right and safe food. Speaking at the virtual launch of the 'Eat Right India Challenge' initiative by food safety regulator FSSAI, the Minister said a strong immune system is not …

COVID-19 induced food insecurity will lead to an increase in malnutrition, says UNICEF official
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 induced food insecurity will lead to an increase in malnutrition, says UNICEF official

The Hindu  

Increase in joblessness and poverty due to the pandemic will lead to a rise in hunger as well as malnutrition in the country, cautions UNICEF’s India Chief for Nutrition Arjan De Wagt, adding that the extended lockdown has hit many nutritional services. We know that in March and April many services were affected, but some such as take home ration …

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