Farmers give silver lining to famine clouds

A country where millions have died of starvation can now hope to achieve self-sufficiency in food, with the UN predicting record harvests of …

Living with hunger

Ash in the Belly by Harsh Mander, Penguin Books, Rs 350

Climate change

Least polluting countries hit the hardest

South Asia

Will milk fortification benefit the poor?

According to report

Nutrition challenge

According to report

Bringing better health to the Indian woman

Efforts are on to tackle the abysmal state of female health in India, especially among the poorer sections

Failure from the jaws of success

Chhattisgarh reduced infant mortality a few years ago, but threw away the good work  

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

Malnourished, under-weight children in India can increase by more than 4 mln: Study

The COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to food shocks that make children more prone to malnourishment

How the state fails its little ones

Jyotsna Singh visits anganwadis to find out why a large number of children suffer from malnutrition despite welfare programmes for them

Death in the air

Environmental pollution could be responsible for 40 per cent of all deaths world-wide

Vitaminimum

Not kidding

Children in developing countries continue to suffer, claims UNICEF

Global malnutrition crisis: Africa worst hit; over 7 million girls, women undernourished in Nigeria

Nigerian girls and women suffering undernourishment can put newborn at risk, says UNICEF

Nearly 1.5 million children at risk of acute malnutrition as Somalia drought worsens

Severe drought had affected about 90% of Somalia’s land and a quarter of its 16 million population in March this year

Fighting hidden hunger

Dr Howarth E Bouis, director of HarvestPlus, is a doctorate from Stanford University. He is promoting biofortification within the Consultative …

Malnutrition: India needs to urgently break inter-generational cycle

Under-nourished women, in all likelihood, became under-nourished mothers with a greater chance of giving birth to low birth-weight babies, …

No land to farm

With urbanisation of rural areas, space for food production in India is decreasing

Exclusive cereal-dependence

Large-scale child deaths in tribal Maharashtra

from April to August this year, almost 300 children fell prey to malnutrition in just two blocks (Akkalkua and Taloda) of Maharashtra's Nandurbar …

Hunger meter: How India fared over the years

A lookthrough of five factors and how the country's performance has changed 

Centre approves setting up of National Nutrition Mission to address malnutrition, stunting

The mission would map various schemes and monitor them real-time