UNITED NATIONS

Crisis mismanagement

Remains of the day

GM aid

Impasse over biotechnology offers no solution to the world's hungry

Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh

Food prices are expected to rise more, and cost may be too heavy to bear for many

Climate crisis may undo last century’s achievement in curbing extreme hunger

Agricultural labourers do not get even two square meals a day, reveals NSSO survey

About one per cent rural households do not get enough food throughout the year

KENYA

Climate has changed

Admits the World Meteorological Organization

Drought unleashes starvation

Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand's backward district, actual number might be 20

UP voters ask candidates for assembly election to take test

In search of famine

HARVESTING HUNGER·A video film by Krishnendu Bose·Duration: 53 minutes

Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

According to report

Whither freedom?

Post independence, governments expanded squeezing village republics out of existence

Acute food insecurity: 4 African countries remain at highest concern level

Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan and Sudan remain at the highest level of concern, finds report by FAO, WFP

Online

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

Climate change affects low-lying areas, puts poor at risk

Low cost, high risk

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Malnutrition count up in Orissa

PDS protests in West Bengal

In short

Survey highlights severe nutrition deficiencies in West Bengal tea workers

Study carried out following death of a tea worker due to starvation