-Down to Earth Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Mexico may be rising economic powerhouses, but these fast-expanding, middle-income countries are still home to nearly half of the world's hungry people, numbering 363 million, says a new report. In such a scenario, attention must be paid to those living in the "economic middle" to effectively combat hunger and Malnutrition on a...

-The Hindu Business Line India measures poorest in terms of stunted children at 47.9% NEW DELHI: Five middle-income countries (MICs) which displayed strong economic growth in 2014 - India, Brazil, China, Mexico and Indonesia - account for 363 million, or a half, of the world's hungry, according to a report released on Wednesday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The 2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) called on Governments of these...

-PTI NGOs like Greenpeace are opposing genetically engineered 'Golden Rice' without any basis, green activist Patrick Moore alleged today while pitching for its cultivation. Interestingly, Moore himself was a co-founder of Greenpeace International but later disassociated with the NGO in 1986 due to differences of opinion. He alleged that the Greenpeace is "raising money to oppose 'Golden Rice' without any basis and offering alternatives to address Malnutrition". He claimed that the Golden Rice'...

-The Times of India RANCHI: Chief minister Raghubar Das on Friday said that the government will appoint 12,000 women 'poshan sakhis' (nutrition companions) contract workers to implement and monitor various government schemes aimed at tackling the problem of Malnutrition in schools. Das said that under the new scheme, three lakh students covering 40,000 schools in the state would benefit. The announcement while inaugurating additional nourishment scheme which is an extension of the...

The India Country Report 2015 on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comes at a time when the Union Budget 2015-16 allegedly cut expenditure on several social sector schemes and programmes. This year's MDG country report says that India will fail to achieve two important targets pertaining to reducing hunger and maternal mortality by 2015, among others. Released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), the report says that India is...