Mahim Pratap Singh

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KOKMAR (AMRAVATI DISTRICT):

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Good nutrition is the nexus point where food security, public health and environmental protection meet.

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India has about 48 per cent of undernourished children below five years, the largest in the world, according to a Unicef survey.

The survey says India has an estimated 61 million stunted children, accounting for every three out of 10 stunted children in the developing world.

Global Organisation for Human Empowerment and Rights (GOHER) foundation organised a festival for children' rights on the occasion of Universal Children Day, here on Friday. Executive Director of GOHER foundation, A.G.

The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its responsibility to the vision of a world free from chronic hunger and malnutrition, especially child malnutrition.

Around 5,000 children under the age of five die in India every day, according to a latest Unicef report. With malnutrition rates continuing to be high, 96 per cent of children who die belong to the scheduled tribes, 88 per cent to scheduled castes and 59 to general population.