Malnutrition

CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said.

Publication Date:

17/10/2008

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Food Supply, Malnutrition, Starvation, Poverty, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), M S Swaminathan, Food Security

Poverty

MP at bottom of hunger pyramid

BS Reporter / New Delhi October 15, 2008, 0:31 IST

Publication Date:

15/10/2008

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Malnutrition, Starvation, Poverty, India, Madhya Pradesh

Poverty

The India state hunger index: comparisons of hunger across states

India has consistently ranked poorly on the Global Hunger Index. The Global Hunger Index 2008 reveals India

Publication Date:

14/10/2008

Author(s): Purnima Menon, Anil Deolalikar, Anjor Bhaskar

Source: International Fund for Agricultural Development

Tags:

Nutrition, Malnutrition, Poverty, India, Food Security

Health

The peanut butter debate

A new type of ready-to-use food is changing the way severe malnutrition is treated. But questions remain about how far to push its introduction--and science has a hard time providing the answer.

Publication Date:

03/10/2008

Author(s): Martin Enserink

Source: Science

Vol:

322

Issue:

5898

pp:

36

Tags:

Nutrition, Malnutrition, Food Aid, Niger, Health, Child Health, WHO, Africa

Food Policy

Towards the ideal of a hunger-free India

M.S. Swaminathan

Achieving the goal of nutrition security for all Indians will need a fusion of political will and action, professional skill, and peoples

Publication Date:

02/10/2008

Author(s): M. S. Swaminathan

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Food Supply, Malnutrition, Poverty, India, Food Security

Food Policy

Global hunger index: the challenge of hunger 2008

The 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made slow progress in reducing food insecurity since 1990, with dramatic differences among regions and countries. In the nearly two decades since 1990, some regions

Publication Date:

01/10/2008

Source: International Food Policy Research Institute

Tags:

Food Policy, Food Prices, Malnutrition, Poverty, Asia, India, Global, Food Security

Agriculture