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October 1, 2012
India: National shame of young and hungry mouths
This post gives an overview of the hunger situation among the poor across rural India. Disturbing statistics have been revealed by the latest report released by the international charity Save the Children. India’s children are now one of the world’s most vulnerable and underserved in terms of food security. Read […]
October 1, 2012
Global Food Security Index 2012
This report prepared by the EIU (Economic Intelligence Unit) and sponsored by the American chemical company DuPont gives data regarding the food prices and food insecurity for the people in the developing countries of the world. Read the report here.
October 1, 2012
India: Child nutrition programme gets a three-fold budget hike
The government recently cleared a proposal of the WCD (Women and Child Development) Ministry to make ICDS mission-oriented, and has infused into the programme an amount of INR 1235.80 billion, a three-fold increase from previous amounts. ICDS has in the past been a failure in achieving the goals and delivering […]
October 1, 2012
WHO calls for better nutrition in Western Pacific region
According to information from WHO (World Health Organization) as many as 100,000 children under the age of five in the Western Pacific Region die annually because of severe undernourishment. The WHO is attempting to mobilise the region to take action to reduce these dismal statistics. Read more here and here.
October 1, 2012
India tries its own nutrition therapy foods
In India, where malnutrition levels are as bad as those in Africa, there is no such therapeutic food of the kind of Plumpy’Nut produced by French company Nutriset, that has been revolutionizing the treatment of severely acutely malnourished children. Indian doctors and health practitioners are in support of a new […]
October 1, 2012
India at par with Africa on malnutrition
A study by Save the Children brought back the results that India is at the bottom of the ladder when it comes to nutrition, along with countries like Angola, Cameroon, Congo and Yemen. More than 70 per cent of women and children have serious nutritional deficiencies like anaemia, and more […]
October 1, 2012
India: Malnourished children in Sheopur, MP were not monitored
Malnourished children across rural India are supposed to be monitored by the staff of aanganwadi centres (centres which double as children nourishment and support care as well as mini-healthcare institutions) which were established under ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services Scheme), one that the government of India pours money into without […]
October 1, 2012
The Nutrition Barometer: Gauging national responses to undernutrition
World Vision and Save the Children have released a new report called ‘The Nutrition Barometer’ which gauges the efforts of the governments’ political, legal and financial commitments to solving malnutrition related problems within their countries. A total of 36 countries having the 90 per cent of the world’s undernourished children […]
October 1, 2012
GE unveils turbine to complement RE sources
General Electric recently revealed a new range of gas powered electrical turbine which will be instrumental in assisting renewable energy sources in markets across the world, inclusive of US, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Read more here.
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