New Delhi: Despite witnessing high economic growth during the last few years, India has been ranked below many of its neighbouring countries like China and Pakistan, a global hunger index published on Monday by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said.
One of the few economies to register healthy growth while large parts of the world see a recession, India has been ranked 67th
Ranchi, Oct. 10: Chief minister Arjun Munda today announced a number of measures to fight drought and curb hunger in the state.
At a one-day regional meet on drought, Munda declared that farmers would soon get crop insurance policy claims, while the government would provide clean water to every remote village in the state.
A recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, provides a damning indictment of the role of speculation in food commodities in fuelling the global food crisis.
JAIPUR: Global as well as national commitment to reduce malnutrition and hunger as per the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) appears to be falling short of required willpower.
At global level, first it was the high food prices and then the escalation in fuel prices, followed by the economic meltdown, which played an adverse role on the determination of the nations.
The current drought situation in the state has brought in a change in the political scenario of Lalgarh. With hunger looming large, the CPM has managed to regain lost ground with the help of government-sponsored schemes.
Rome: The number of people in the world suffering chronic hunger has declined for the first time in 15 years, due to improving economic conditions and lower food prices, the United Nations
