Health

51% of Indian women aged 15-49 anaemic, most in world: Study

NEW DELHI: Women's health in India is facing a serious nutritional challenge, with the country on the one hand grappling with the largest number of anaemic women in the world and on the other havin

Publication Date: 
07/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Anaemia, India, Women, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Health Effects, Health
Health

Africa: Global Nutrition Crisis Threatens Human Development, Demands 'Critical Step Change' in Response - Report

Milan — Almost every country in the world now faces a serious nutrition-related challenge, whether stemming from undernutrition or obesity, the authors of The Global Nutrition Report 2017 said toda

Publication Date: 
06/11/2017
All Africa
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Health, Malnutrition, Food Security, Nutrition, Global, Child Health, Africa
Health

African Leaders Part of Global Response to Malnutrition Crisis as Over $3.4 Billion is Committed at Global Nutrition Summit 2017

Milan — African leaders gathered at a summit to address the global crisis of malnutrition helped to galvanise US3.4bn including US$640 million in new commitments, organisers said today.

Publication Date: 
06/11/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Global, Malnutrition, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Africa, Child Health
Health

Global Nutrition Report 2017: Nourishing the SDGs

The Global Nutrition Report 2017, launched at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, Italy, highlights the need for an urgent and integrated response to global nutrition if we are to meet the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2017
Development Initiatives
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Nutrition, Malnutrition, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Obesity, India, Global, Finance, Child Health, Poverty, Food Security, Non Communicable Diseases
Food Policy

Cadre Harmonisé for Identification of Risk Areas and Vulnerable Populations in Sixteen (16) States and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria

For the first time since the onset of the Boko Haram crisis, hunger has considerably declined in northeastern Nigeria. In the three states ravaged by the violence, the number of people facing acute hunger has halved since June-August - from 5.2 million to 2.6 million people - according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis.

Publication Date: 
02/11/2017
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Nutrition, Nigeria, Malnutrition
Food Policy

At a glance: food insecurity in Asia - why Institutions matter

While overall food security has improved remarkably in Asia in the past decades, food insecurity still prevails in many developing countries in the region. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, over 500 million Asians still suffer from hunger.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2017
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Food Security, Malnutrition, Food Supply, Economic Development, India, Asia
Food Policy

‘33% of Liberian Children Are Malnourished’

Minister Carey: "We have instituted a special leadership to run the program at the ministry."
-Says Deputy Commerce Min. Carey; launches food fortification alliance today

Publication Date: 
31/10/2017
Liberian Observer (Liberia)
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Food Policy, Malnutrition, Food Security, Child Health, Children, Liberia, UNICEF, Africa
Climate Change

The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement,1 and the health implications of these actions. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change,2 which concluded that anthropogenic climate change threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health, and conversely, that a comprehensive response to climate change could be “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”.

Publication Date: 
30/10/2017
Nick Watts, Markus Amann, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson & et al
Lancet
1-50
Tags:
Climate Change, Health Effects, Climate Impacts, Air Pollution, PM 2.5, Green House Gases, Climate Adaptation, Natural Disasters, India, China, Africa, Global Warming, Heat Waves, Occupational Health, Droughts, Statistics, Vector Borne Diseases, Malnutrition
Food Policy

Namibia: 37 Percent of Namibians Hungry and Undernourished

THE prevalence of undernourishment in Namibia was last measured at 37% in 2016, while 24% of children under the age of five are stunted.

Publication Date: 
24/10/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Security, Malnutrition, Namibia, UNDP, FAO, Poverty, Africa
Agriculture

Kenya's vegetable evangelist claims a prize – and takes on climate change

For 15 years, Felda Alividza and 21 other widows in this village in Kenya’s Vihiga County have grown something that might not sound that unusual: indigenous African vegetables.

Publication Date: 
23/10/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Food Security, Vegetables, Kenya, Africa, Malnutrition

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