The Decline of Extreme Poverty
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…
Hunger
Right To Food Campaign Demands Universal Maternity Entitlements
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…
Areas of Most Serious and Worsening Hunger in World Led by Gaza
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…
Ensure nutritious food to all
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’…
Unpacking the Dispute Over Hunger in India
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…
On the Occasion of World Food Day, Our Demand for a Dignified Right to Food and Life for All
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.…
On the Brink of Famine
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…
Hunger in Africa has its roots in a History of Colonialism and Neo-colonialism
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…
Real Action, Not Words Alone, Needed to Achieve UN Agenda 2030: Civil Society
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…
How A Simple USA Budget Reform Can Save A Million Human Lives in A Year
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…
World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
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…
2.4 Bln People Did Not Have Constant Access To Food, Hunger Stunts 148 Mln Children, Says UN Report
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.…
UN Agencies Warn ‘Acute Food Insecurity’ Likely to Worsen in 18 Hunger Hot Spots
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"…
Hunger Games
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…
Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry
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…
Hunger Profiteers, Granny Killers and Skin-Deep Morality
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…
Ending the World’s Cycles of Conflict, Disaster and Extreme Poverty
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…
Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger
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…
Empty Tables: How It Feels to Be Hungry
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…
Horn of Africa–Will Famine Deaths Take Place This Year Due to Shortage of Funds and Relief Supplies
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…
Rising Food, Rents, Energy Prices Threatened Rights Of People In UK, Says Human Rights Watch
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…
Government of India cuts ration entitlements by 50% of 81 crore people
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…
Growing malnutrition is a Big challenge
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…
Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger Deaths
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…
A Million or More Face Starvation Death
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…
Challenges on ‘World Day of the Poor’!
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…
Red Alert on 19 Hunger Hot-Spots Issued, But Will Help Reach in Time?
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…
Solving the problem of hunger and unemployment should be given priority
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
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…
India ranks Shamefully in World Hunger Index, 107th out of 121 countries
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…
Record Numbers Face Severe Hunger Amidst Possibility of Many Starvation Deaths
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…
Number of Ultrarich Hits All-Time High as Someone Dies From Hunger Every 4 Seconds
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’s position on the World Hunger Index has fallen and malnutrition and unemployment rising
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…
No Russian roulette: The hunger emergency and the global corporate system
As government efforts to contain it fails even in rich nations, the world’s hunger and livelihoods crisis is rapidly escalating into an emergency. Western leaders and media have been blaming…
Rising Inflation Pushes 71 Million People Worldwide Into Poverty
The worldwide cost-of-living crisis is pushing an additional 71 million people in the world's poorest countries into extreme poverty, warned the a new report by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP)…
Hunger in Africa
One of the less discussed side-effects of the Ukraine war is that it is likely to have aggravated the hunger crisis in many countries of Africa. Some of the countries…
Ukraine Update: The War Hikes Hunger In Africa With Increasing Food Price
The war in Ukraine is increasing food prices, which is increasing hunger in Africa. An AP report from Mogadishu, Somalia cited Ayan Hassan Abdirahman, who is now paying twice as…
Long COVID – Economic Devastation and Quarter of a Billion Pushed Into Extreme Poverty
There is a terrifying prospect that in excess of a quarter of a billion more people will fall into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 alone. Without immediate radical action, we…
Oxfam report: Poorer countries going from crisis to catastrophe
In the lead up to the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank being held in Washington this week, the global aid agency Oxfam has…
The Ukraine war and the impending pandemic of hunger- Part Two
For the world’s vulnerable populations already reeling from one of the worst economic shocks and an unprecedented hunger and livelihoods crisis resulting from the Covid-19 lockdowns, Russia’s war in Ukraine…
The Ukraine war and the impending pandemic of hunger-Part One
For the world’s vulnerable populations already reeling from one of the worst economic shocks and an unprecedented hunger and livelihoods crisis resulting from the Covid-19 lockdowns, Russia’s war in…
‘Let them eat Amrit’: After Covid a pandemic of extreme hunger awaits India
The Modi government’s indifference to the plight of the poor is now pathological. The Indian government’s rhetoric about ‘Amrit Kaal,’ an era of plenty, masks a consistent denial of the…
Hunger In Latin America And the Caribbean Rose By 13.8 Million People In Just One Year, Says UN Report
Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean is at its highest point since 2000, after a 30 percent increase in the number of people suffering hunger from 2019 to 2020,…
India’s declining position in the global hunger index and growing hunger due to lack of nutritious food …
Nutritious food is considered essential for a healthy life, but 300 million people, or 40 percent of the world's population, do not have enough money to eat nutritious food. This…
Between Hunger and Poverty: Politics and Policies of Estimation
Hunger and poverty are so intertwined that reports concerning one have implications for the other, and a palpable common factor is food security. The release of the Global Hunger Index…
World Food Day Should be Time to Protect Health and Livelihoods By Correcting Distorted Policies
World Food Day ( October 16 ) may be just the right time to reconsider several highly controversial decisions taken in recent times which will create several avoidable problems in…
Give us Today our Daily Food
Come 16 October – and the world once again is together as one, to focus on the most basic need for a person’s survival: food! The first ‘World Food Day’…
Malnutrition, child mortality a challenge
Efforts to prevent infant, child and maternal deaths across the country have proved futile. According to a recent report released by UNICEF, shocking information has come to the fore that…
Under the Shadow of the Pandemic: The Number of Hungry People Continued to Rise in 2020
The number of people in the world affected by hunger continued to increase in 2020 under the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the annual UN report – The State of…
Climate Crisis Pushes A Million People in Madagascar to the ‘Edge of Starvation,’ Says WFP
Climate crisis has pushed communities in Madagascar to the verge of starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) says resources are scarce in the country after the worst drought in four…
World Food System Linked to High Levels of Hunger , Obesity and Health Problems
Serious distortions of world food system are reflected in rather curious statistics that as many as a billion people suffer from hunger but almost double this number also suffer from…
Madagascar: A Nation of Hunger
Madagascar is in great pain. Theodore Mbainaissem, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) sub-office in Ambovombe, southern Madagascar, says: “Seeing the physical condition of people extremely affected by hunger…
Silent Sufferings of Children Increased Greatly This Year
While the sufferings of several sections of population increased this year in India, perhaps it is the silent sufferings of children and students which increased the most. Whether it is…
Urgent Need to Extend Free Food Rations for At Least Six Months
When the government announced special Covid relief and stimulus package, perhaps the most welcomed feature was that of free food grain ( mainly cereals and a little pulse ) for…
The case of hunger amid an illusion of COVID recovery
Have we won the fight against COVID? Wait, let us rephrase that. Do you think we have won the fight against COVID? One may assume that we have left the…
Looming Hunger: These Inert Organizations Have No Answer
Just like clockwork, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has set off another ‘heartfelt’ warning to the rest of the world, saying that, if conditions in the West African…
11 States Survey finds acute situation of hunger across the country
Over two-thirds say nutritional quality has worsened and quantity has reduced (in September-October) compared to pre-lockdown The Right to Food Campaign is shocked with the worsening situation of hunger, although…
World Food Day: Ecologically-Sound Development
Since the hungry billion in the world community believe that we can all eat if we set our common house in order, they believe also that it is unjust that…
The Hunger Crisis in Guatemala
A report released by Oxfam in July 2020 states, “COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the…
Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month
All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical…
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