So the 2008 world hunger index (WHI) published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from the US andWelthungerhilfefrom Germany is out and it is ugly. No, I am not talking about the horrible pictures of African children covered in ashes or an emaciated South Asian woma...
Progress in fighting world hunger has continued to stall. At yesterday's release of the Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, World Food Programme director David Beasley said that the result of rising food prices due to the war in Ukraine would be "global destabilisation, starvation,...
In a week that saw India put on the Commonwealth Games extravaganza costing$7.5 billion, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) released its World Hunger Index 2010 report calling India's hunger situation "alarming", and including it with 29 other mostly sub-Saharan African nation...
WORLD HUNGER SERIES 2006: Hunger and Learning. Rome: World Food Program, and Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2006. 195 pp. This report on hunger, from the World Food Program, dramatically illustrates human conditions around the world. The United Nations World Food Program operates...
and chewed my food thinly, but it won’t come up no matter how I press [on vomit reflex areas],” begins one message in a pro-bulimia group, seeking advice on how to vomit more effectively. In another group, members share pictures of their meals and report w...
2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report€"the eighth in an annual series€"presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. ... K Von Grebmer,D Headey,...
THE HUNGER PROBLEM The world produces more than enough food to provide everyone on Earth with a healthy and nutritious diet. Indeed, over-eating and obesity are now so common that, according to the Worldwatch Institute report, the 1.1 billion people in the world who are over-nourished and ...
Income Inequality Map. Source: World Inequality Report 2022 Unemployment Crisis: India lost 6.8 million salaried jobs and 3.5 million entrepreneurs in November alone. Many among the unemployed can no longer afford to buy food, causing a significant spike in hunger. The country's economy is finding...
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Across 112 countries and 6.3 billion people, 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, with over half of them being children, according to the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report. ...
India ranked 111th of 125 countries in the2023 Global Hunger Indexreport. At 18.7%, it has the world’s highest child wasting rate – the number of children who are too thin for their height – reflecting acute undernutrition. More than one third of children under age 5 in India are stun...