The Famine in the Horn of Africa is being seen as an inevitable consequence of drought, "the worst for 60 years". But this Famine was almost entirely preventable, and presenting it as a natural disaster doesn't help; nor does our insistence on waiting for a major crisis before responding. Even though lessons about how to prevent Famines have been documented time and time again, we don't learn. The conflict in Somalia...
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750,000 people may die in East African Famine: UN
-IANS About 750,000 people could die in East Africa over the next four months due to Famine, if enough aid didn't reach the Famine-stricken region, the UN has warned. According to the UN, about 12 million people across the region, and four million in Somalia alone, are in need of food aid, Daily Mail reported. Getting aid to the starving is a 'race against time', said a top humanitarian official for Somalia, while...
More »High food prices exacerbate crisis in drought-affected Horn of Africa–UN
-The United Nations The prices of grain and milk in the drought-hit Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have risen to record highs, exacerbating hardship for the estimated 12.4 million people in the region who are facing severe food shortages and Famine in some parts of Somalia, the United Nations reported today. According to the August food price monitor of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the high prices of cereals...
More »Will the food security Bill ensure nutrition for the poor? by Sreelatha Menon
States are expected to take responsibility for this, but the Bill ignores the nutritional crisis altogether K V Thomas Minister for Food The inclusion of iron supplements, protein, dairy supplements and vegetables can be done gradually - this Bill is just the beginning The food security Bill will certainly ensure nutrition but it is the states that have to take steps for that. The draft Bill approved recently by the Group of Ministers is...
More »Food Bill skips malnutrition, anaemia as ministries differ by Sreelatha Menon
The Food Security Bill, approved by a group of ministers this month, has ignored malnutrition as a subject, surprising many observers in UN bodies. The reason given is a turf war among different central ministries. According to N C Saxena, a member of the National Advisory Council that has opposed the government’s draft of the Bill, the women and child development ministry was against including the subject in the Bill as...
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