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August 17, 2012
Djibouti: Food insecurity status
About 49 per cent of households in rural areas of Djibouti are food insecure, and another 28 per cent of households are moderately food insecure. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Kenya: Urban poor food insecure
Kenya faces high rates of urbanizations through rural to urban movement of people. While this puts a pressure on housing, food security is also seen suffering under the pressures of population. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Malawi’s food security threatened by contaminated groundnuts
Due to inadequate pre- and post-harvest practices such as bad drying and storage, crops like peanuts are prone to high contamination by aflatoxins (highly toxic but naturally occurring mycotoxin fungi). In Malawi, an estimated 60 per cent of peanuts (called groundnuts) are not tested for these […]
August 17, 2012
Papua New Guinea’s food security under threat
Agriculture is the mainstay of most of the population of PNG, but with bad management of food produced is leading to poor incomes of the farmers, and the resultant is food insecurity. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Breaking Africa’s cycle of hunger
About 18 million people in Africa across a band that stretches from Senegal to Chad are suffering from extreme shortage of food – resorting to having leaves and grains raided from ant-nests within the earth. Read more here.
August 17, 2012
Surviving on a meal a day in Ghana
Ghana has been suffering from erratic rainfall and hence low food productivity in the past couple of years – this has led families to adopt “one-zero-one strategy” for their children, and “zero-zero-one strategy” for themselves. They are barely surviving due to lack of food, and rates […]
August 17, 2012
Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity: Directions and Solutions for Policy, Research and Action
According to the recently published book by the UN FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), while some one billion people suffer from varying degrees of hunger and food insecurity, yet more are obese. Read more here, and read the report here.
August 17, 2012
Teaching Madagascar’s mothers corrent nutritional methods for their children
As a part of the US$3.5 million National Community Nutrition Programme (PNNC), mothers are being trained to participate in correct nutritional practices regarding their children. Every Friday, mothers with their children gather at community centres to weigh-in their children, learn about healthy diets and correct […]
August 17, 2012
An ‘Olympic sized’ boost to child nutrition
The leaders of UK and Brazil have challeged their counterparts in the world to propose methods of imporving child nutrition at the Global Hunger Event held earlier this August in London. A new global target to reduce child malnutrition in the world by 70 million children (a […]
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Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
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