Full Coverage: Nutrition/malnutrition

28.04.2008 WASHINGTON, Apr 28 (OneWorld) - Far away and close to home the growing world food crisis is taking a toll. While Americans are increasingly shocked at their rising grocery bills, hunger threatens lives and stability in several developing countries.

25.04.2008 This week's alert on the growing global food crisis is perhaps the most worrying one we've ever sent, says OneWorld's managing editor in the United States.

19.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 19 (OneWorld) - The current food crisis causing hunger and starvation for millions of people across the world is not going to end as long as those who dominate the international grain markets remain unwilling to change their behavior, according to experts specializing in international trade and environmental economics.

24.03.2008 UNDP has said that rich nations must enhance their aid to Bangladesh to cushion the rising prices of food items. With inflation reaching 16% and the cost of rice doubling in last one year, poor households are spending more than two-thirds of their earnings on food.

12.03.2008 New software by India’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) in Jharkhand offers individual search for pregnant women and newborns at the Anganwadi level. The programme will help the state government track the nutrition status of both mother and child and the immunisation of infants.

22.02.2008 With nearly 10 million children dying every year around the world, how does it matter even if GDP growth shoots up? Research reveals that the issue is not about inadequacy of resources among developing countries, but lack of effective policies that can translate economic growth into development outcomes for the poor.

19.02.2008 Child mortality cannot be divorced from broader political and socio-economic development, says a report by Save the Children, a UK-based organisation. The report argues that policy choices and efficient resource allocation are crucial to tackle the issue of child survival in developing countries.

02.02.2008 Sri Lankan police has finally released UNICEF’s impounded consignment of high protein biscuits meant for undernourished children and mothers in the conflict zone. The UN agency’s aid material had been confiscated earlier also on the suspicion that they would land in the hands of Tamil rebels.

30.01.2008

28.01.2008 India is home to 61 million stunted children – more than half the total number of kids under the age of five and 34% of the world’s young ones. The diminutive growth is attributed to malnutrition during pregnancy and first two years of birth, says The Lancet report, underlining the importance of ‘golden interval of intervention’.

23.01.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (OneWorld) - Tens of thousands of children die each day, many because they have no access to simple medical treatments, say the authors of a new study released here Tuesday.

14.01.2008 The Harry Chapin Media Awards were created in 1982 to encourage the media to tell stories of hunger and poverty. These global awards recognise work on causes of economic poverty and forces leading to self-reliance of poor. The current deadline for submitting entries is February 1, 2008.

07.01.2008 Providing free midday meals to all primary school children is one of the most ambitious initiatives in India. Despite the complaints of gaps in delivery and shortfall in supply, the midday meal scheme in Rajasthan has succeeded in improving nutritional status of school going children and enhanced school attendance and enrolment.

03.01.2008 UNICEF has recently released 2007 Tsunami Report, highlighting progress made for children in last three years. In 2004, tsunami waves had claimed more than 200,000 lives and devastated towns and communities.

14.12.2007 World Food Programme has drawn attention towards seven countries in the world, which are vulnerable to hunger. Two of them are in South Asia – Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

30.11.2007

29.11.2007 A report by the United Nations World Food Programme, released ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, highlights links between hunger, poor health and HIV/AIDS. Life-saving drugs are more effective when people are well nourished and healthy, the report says.

14.11.2007 On the eve of Children’s Day in India, a petition signed by 300,001 children was submitted to the government, demanding 9% of the Gross Domestic Product to be invested in education and health.

31.10.2007 Fourteen minors were recently rescued from the clutches of a sub-contractor, working for clothing giant GAP, by a local NGO in Shahpur Jaat area in the Indian capital. But what about the 100,000 child labourers still engaged in embroidery and zari sweatshops in Delhi?

19.10.2007 The second Global Hunger Index presents a gloomy picture when it comes to meeting the MDG targets related to hunger and child mortality. Barring a few regions of the world, it appears that hunger will continue to haunt humanity for a long time to come.