Health

Draft Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2019

The FSSAI has drafted new regulations called the Food Safety and Standards (Foods for Infant Nutrition) Regulations, 2019.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2019
Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI)
Tags:
Food Safety, Food Standards, Infant Formula, Nutrition, India
Health

Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2019
Paul Brenton, Mike Nyawo
The World Bank
Tags:
Food Prices, Child Health, Ethiopia, Africa, Nutrition
Health

Somalia: Health and Nutrition Programme Launches in Two Regions of Somalia

The Somali Health and Nutrition (SHINE) programme comes at a critical point in Somalia's history with the aim of improving the health and nutrition status of Somalis, with a particular focus on wom

Publication Date: 
10/04/2019
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Somalia, Women, Child Health, Health Care, Africa
Food Policy

Global report on food crises 2019

Around 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2018, compared to 124 million in 2017 finds this new report by the European Union, the FAO and the UN World Food Pro

Publication Date: 
02/04/2019
FAO
Tags:
Food Security, Food Prices, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Global
Food Policy

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification: Technical manual version 3.0

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a common global scale for classifying the severity and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2019
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)
Tags:
Food Security, Nutrition, Poverty, Consumption Patterns, Agriculture, Rainfall Pattern, Droughts, Natural Disasters, Malnutrition
Food Policy

Nigeria: 'Crises in Rural Areas Threaten Progress in Hunger, Poverty Reduction'

The 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released yesterday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has raised concerns about threats to progress recorded in improved food and

Publication Date: 
28/03/2019
All Africa
Tags:
Food Security, Poverty, Global, Africa, Nutrition, Conflicts, India, China, Unemployment
Health

Gambia Micro-Nutrients Survey Report Launched

National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) in Collaboration with UNICEF on Monday 25th March 2019 launched the Gambia 2018 Survey Report on Macronutrients and Dissemination.

Publication Date: 
27/03/2019
All Africa
Tags:
Health, Nutrition, Gambia, UNICEF, Non Communicable Diseases, Child Health, Children, Africa
Agriculture

Kenya: Artificial Intelligence is the Answer to Kenya's Food Insecurity

Agriculture is key to Kenya's economy, contributing 26 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and another 27 per cent of GDP indirectly through linkages with other sectors.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2019
All Africa
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Security, Kenya, Science And Technology, Farmers, FAO, Economy, GDP, Nutrition, Africa
Food Policy

Food = Nutrition, nature and livelihoods

We need a model of agricultural growth that will value local good food production and not have to first "chemicalise" and then learn better

Publication Date: 
11/03/2019
Sunita Narain
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Diabetes, Hypertension (Blood Pressure), Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (FSSAI), Nutrition, Health, Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Health

Poorest of poor and uneducated women left behind in ICDS

Anganwadi services have a poor reach among key beneficiaries – the poorest of the poor and uneducated mothers – according to a paper published in a WHO bulletin recently.

Publication Date: 
07/03/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), WHO, Nutrition, Child Health, Health

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