Use DMF funds effectively to fight hunger and child malnutrition

The money provides enormous scope to scale up intervention and meet national and SDG targets at the time of a slipping hunger index

Why Global Hunger Index also flags climate change

GHI's 2019 essay is a review of scientific literature on increasingly clear impacts that climate changes have on the most malnourished

India's rank slips further in global hunger index, fares worse than North Korea, Iraq

More than one-fifth of the children younger than five years in India suffer from wasting and over a third have stunted growth

Nutritional security could have made the fight against COVID-19 easier

This weak link between growth in income and nutritional outcomes requires the attention of policy makers

One in nine people globally does not have enough food: UN agency

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of population with lack of enough food 

Hunger can't wait

While the decline in hunger and undernutrition has been robust in some parts of the world, many countries still suffer the indignity of food …

India has highest number of extremely thin children: World Hunger Index

The UN report urges countries to pay special attention to vulnerable groups like infant, children aged under five, school aged children, …

Violence, conflict push up global hunger crisis

After witnessing a steady decline for over a decade, hunger increased in 2016 and now affects 815 million people worldwide

Why India needs climate resilient agriculture systems

Temperature rise is likely to show serious effects on crop yields. High temperatures may reduce crop duration, permit changes in photosynthesis, …

Latin America, Caribbean see acutest hunger in 15 years: UN

The number of people living with hunger increased by 13.8 million in just one year in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new UN …

Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths

They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification

Towards zero hunger in Africa: 5 steps to achieve food security

Without transformative change like the Asian Green Revolution, African food systems will continue to impede human development

How is the Global Hunger Index ranking calculated?

India ranks 107 out of 121 countries in GHI 2022; Centre accuses it of misinformation   

India is reeling under hunger. Will government intervention during COVID-19 help?

Data on nutrition status during COVID-19 could help improve future nutrition programmes in India  

India slips 7 spots to rank 101 among 116 countries on Global Hunger Index

Globally, India worst in ‘wasting’ or ‘weight for height’ among children, says latest Global Hunger Index

Hungry nation: 70% Indians cannot afford healthy diet

Rising food prices fuelled this upward trend, with the cost of a healthy diet increasing by 3.3% in 2020

India’s hunger crisis worse than Bangladesh, Nepal

Around 15 per cent of India’s population is undernourished and 38.7 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth

Global Hunger Index: India slips to 107 from 101, behind all Asian countries except war-torn Afghanistan

Other countries in the same classification as India include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zambia, Botswana, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali

IPES report highlights global hunger crisis amid high debt

World’s poorest countries saw the costs of servicing their debt increase by 35 per cent in 2022

Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns

Between 83 million and 132 million people could go hungry in 2020 due to COVID-19, according to the report

Need food system overhaul to combat global hunger: Report

Promoting consumption model and regenerative production practices, supporting development of diverse distribution market networks is need of the hour

Simply Put: Hungry country

Simply put: Global Hunger Index 2019

Simply put: Hungry India

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