-Down to Earth GHI's 2019 essay is a review of scientific literature on increasingly clear impacts that climate changes have on the most malnourished The 2019 edition of the Global Hunger Index was accompanied by an essay focused on the climate dimensions of the hunger problem. Essays accompanying previous GHI editions have similarly shone a spotlight on forced migration (2018), inequality and power differentials (2017), the sustainable development goals (2016) and armed...
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India facing severe levels of malnutrition, climate change to further worsen undernutrition -Neetu Chandra Sharma
-Livemint.com * The report also took note of open defecation in India as an impacting factor for health * Public health experts have also said that India need some more time to tackle malnutrition and the efforts are going on New Delhi: While India is tagged as a country with ‘serious’ levels of hunger, climate change will further worsen its undernutrition levels, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019, a report jointly published by...
More »India ranked 102 in Global Hunger Index, 8 places behind Pakistan
-Hindustan Times The report warned that the progress towards a 2030 zero hunger target that was agreed upon by leaders across the words was “under threat”. New Delhi: India slipped to the 102 spot in the Global Hunger Index which features 117 countries, according to Concern Worldwide, an aid agency which compiles the report. India was the lowest ranked South Asian country in Global Hunger Index even behind Pakistan which was ranked 94th....
More »India slips to 102nd rank in Global Hunger Report, behind Nepal, Pak, Bangladesh
-The Indian Express The report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe termed the level of hunger in India "serious". India slipped to 102 position in the 2019 Global Hunger Index featuring 117 countries, behind Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Over one in every five children in India is “wasted” (low weight for height), the highest for any country in the report. The share of wasting...
More »India is 102 in Hunger Index of 117 nations, undoing decade of improvement -Abhishek Waghmare
-Business Standard In India, just 9.6 percent of all children between 6 and 23 months of age are fed a minimum acceptable diet, a global report said India has slipped from 95th rank in 2010 to 102nd in 2019 on the Global Hunger Index (GHI), with the increase in prevalence of wasting (low weight for height) among children under five contributing the most to the country’s poor performance. Over a longer-term horizon, the...
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