Clean and safe food is not merely a health issue but is deeply connected to human dignity, sustainable development, economic progress, and social stability. Today, as the world grapples with…
ROME – Every Easter, Christians remember how at the Last Supper, on the eve of Jesus’s crucifixion, hope seemed to be lost. Most of Jesus’s closest friends were about to…
by Liz Theoharis and William D. Hartung With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate…
There are nearly 14 million children in the USA who suffer from food insecurity and hunger, or about one in five. During the peak of the COVID crisis this had…
The recent( Nov-2024) death of two young tribal women,Ms Runi Majhi ,age 30, Ms Ramita Patamajhi, age 28, and hospitalization 7 other in serious condition due to consumption of Mango kernel…
About a month ago, on 15 October, the 2024 Global Hunger Index was released. India ranks 105out of 127 countries; with a score of27.3, India has a level of hunger that…
Background: On October 30th, a tragic incident occurred when eight women of Mandipanka village of Kandhamal district consumed gruel made from mango kernels, resulting in severe illness. While being transported…
The 2024 Global Hunger Index (GHI) has raised serious concerns about the state of malnutrition in India. Highlighting the extent of malnutrition and food insecurity, the report reveals some shocking…
India, one of the largest democracies in the world, sees a surge in political discourse during election time. Political parties showcase their development work, run intense campaigns, and leave no…
October 16th is celebrated as World Food Day, marking the foundation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. The theme for this year is ‘Right to…
An Oxfam report published Wednesday estimates that war-fueled hunger is likely killing as many as 21,000 people per day in dozens of countries as parties to global conflicts weaponize starvation…
PHILADELPHIA – In the year since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Israeli forces have killed an estimated 41,200 Palestinians, including 16,700 children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. But…
According to this year's 'State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World' report, India has the highest number of malnourished people in the world, with a staggering 195 million…
Angola has experienced a high growth rate in recent times. It has been reasonably stable politically. Angola has significant oil deposits and exports. It also has gold and diamonds, not…
Geneva - Yemen is facing a nutrition emergency of catastrophic proportions, with three districts plunged into severe crisis and four more teetering on the edge of famine. This escalating disaster demands…
There are several fragile ad vulnerable countries which are passing through very difficult times due to a combination of factors. Often a large number of people in these countries are…
At the beginning of this year, on January 12, 2024 to be precise, about 20 eminent persons involved in humanitarian aid efforts for Central Sahel region of Africa issued an…
Belying the confidence of the World Food Day theme of 2023, with its overarching tagline “Water is Life, Water Is Food. Leave No One Behind”, the world is teetering on…
Following 15 months of civil war in Sudan that's displaced more than 10 million people and blocked the delivery of food to desperately hungry Sudanese, the United Nations Famine Review…
According to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, a staggering 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and…
At a time when trillions of dollars are being wasted annually on weapons, high luxury and wasteful consumption as well gigantic projects of highly suspect usefulness, the most urgently needed…
There are two things that have caught my attention over the last few weeks, one is a powerful submission on eradicating poverty beyond growth by the Special Rapporteur on extreme…
Many war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical “four horses of the apocalypse,” believed by many in early modern Europe to…
UNICEF Child Food poverty report 2024 has brought forward startling figures on child malnutrition in India. As per the report 40% of our children suffer from severe food poverty and…
Humanitarian crises deserve the most urgent attention. While rushing all possible help and mobilizing adequate resources must be the most immediate priority, ultimately the aim must be to minimize the…
Several leading efforts have made a very important contribution to drawing attention to the serious hunger and humanitarian crises situations in various parts of world. They deserve our thanks and…
In this three part series, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi…
One of the foremost accomplishments of the industrial age is the “immense progress against extreme poverty.” “Extreme poverty” is defined by the World Bank as a person living on less…
As we approach the final Budget to be presented by this government, we demand that the Central government, at least now, acknowledges its responsibility towards ensuring the implementation of maternity…
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative, the highest level of acute food insecurity (Phase 3 and above—crisis and worse) as well as catastrophic hunger (the highest…
It is a matter of worry that at a GHI score of 28.7 in the Global Hunger Index Report 2023, India ranks at 111position out of the 125 countries surveyed. In comparison, our neighbours’…
The GHI report ignited a fiery response from the government, underscoring the profound significance of the hunger issue in the country's political landscape. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) report has…
The celebration of World Food Day on 16th October began in 1979 as a way to commemorate the founding date of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945.…
In a recent report ( March 2023) the World Food Program (WFP) stated that hunger in the world is at higher levels compared to any other time since the creation…
Soon after many countries of Africa became free from direct colonial rule, it was noticed that distorted patterns of trade allied to big business growth were resulting in perpetuation of…
As politicians and policymakers make speeches at the United Nations during a high-level summit next week to assess the lack of progress on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable…
A simple reform of diverting some of the highly excessive and wasteful military budget to civilian and health priorities can achieve the highly desirable objective to saving about one million…
On Monday, June 17, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, announced, “The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect.” This was a blunt statement to suspend the…
Approximately 2.4 billion individuals, largely women and residents of rural areas, did not have consistent access to nutritious, safe, and sufficient food in 2022, said UN’s latest report. The U.N.…
As El Niño looms and fighting in Sudan rages on, a pair of United Nations agencies on Monday warned that "acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hot spots"…
Reports of people suffering and dying as a result of famines are not novel to our country. Kalahandi and Kashipur in Odisha, Baran in Rajasthan, Palamau and Manjhladi in Jharkhand, and Jalhi…
The World Bank says nearly 80% (560 million) of the 700 million people who were pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 due to COVID policies were from India. Globally, extreme poverty…
Today, a fifth (278 million) of the African population are undernourished, and 55 million of that continent’s children under the age of five are stunted due to severe malnutrition. In 2021, an…
This year marks the halfway point—eight years in and eight years out—of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities. Yet we are a long way off…
It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and their bellies. In April 2022, Oxfam reported a terrifying prospect of more than a quarter of…
My long-dead father used to say, “Every human being deserves to taste a piece of cake.” Though at the time his words meant little to me, as I grew older…
2011-12 was a very sad year for Somalia. As hunger related to drought and other factors was worsening, a famine situation was not declared officially till very late and relief…
The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said: Rising food, rents, and energy prices, and inadequate social protections threatened the rights of people on the lowest incomes, including to food…
Waiving off the subsidized price in no way covers even the cost of buying 5 kgs of ration from the open market The Right to Food Campaign condemns the sheer…
India is the second largest food producing country in the world and we are number one in the production of milk, pulses, rice, fish, vegetables and wheat. Despite this, a…
In the hunger map of present day world, Somalia is probably the most seriously affected country of the 21st century. Somalia is reported by the UN to have lost 260,000…
In May the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC-22), prepared by UN agencies and other expert groups, issued a clear warning stating that the acute hunger situation in world, including…
On 17 October 2022, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), released its annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index(GMPI) report ‘Unpacking deprivation bundles to…
The Global Report on Food Crisis has been drawing attention to the people affected by acute hunger annually for seven years, and this year its recently presented estimates stated that…
The recent statement of our finance minister regarding the dollar and the rupee gives some indication of the same. In this statement given in New York, she said that the…
Right to Food Campaign flags the alarming situation of hunger in the country and the lack of adequate response by the government The Right to Food Campaign held a press…
Our country, which aspires to be a global leader, is currently suffering from hunger in such a way that even in the 2022 Global Hunger Index, it ranks worse than…
World Food Program says that now needs are sky-high and resources are rock bottom Possibilities of not just increase of hunger but even of starvation deaths have been voiced by…
As a new analysis revealed that the global ranks of the superrich soared to a record number, a coalition of charity groups said Tuesday that hundreds of millions of people around…
India is the second largest food producing country in the world and ranks first in the production of milk, pulses, rice, fish, vegetables and wheat. Despite this, a large population…
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