Mandi Ahmedgarh: Prem Kumar Aggarwal, district governor, Rotary International (District 3090), has called upon all NGOs to launch a coordinated move to save infants and children who were dying due to inadequate health facilities, water-borne diseases, starvation and illiteracy.
He also highlighted the need for the water management and environment preservation for the future generations.
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme.
The proposed Food Security Bill should adopt a three-pronged strategy that constitutes a Universal Public Distribution System for all, low-cost foodgrains to the needy, and convergence in the delivery of nutrition safety net programmes.
A SACK OF sorrow has settled on their shaky slim shoulders at an age when they should be spinning around with arms out in their yard. A spurt of desolation has imprisoned them in their murky home when they could be fooling about with their friends in the playground.
The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) here, in association with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, and other organisations, have launched an initiative to end chronic hunger in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) regions of Orissa by 2015.
Noted agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha member M S Swaminathan on Thursday called for a comprehensive plan to ensure food security in the coming years, in the wake of climate change and shrinking agricultural sector.
Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total absence of funding.
