BHUBANESWAR: All claims of growth with equity by the Government seems to have fallen flat as the 2008 India state hunger index (ISHI) released by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on the eve of World Food Day has painted a shabby picture of Orissa.
Ranchi, Oct. 16: The Jharkhand adviser to N.C. Saxena, Supreme Court commissioner for food security, would send his report on the alleged hunger death of eight Birhors in Chatra district to the apex court on Friday.
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.
Bangladesh, which is among the countries with the most worrisome hunger status, has been ranked 70th among 88 nations in the Global Hunger Index.
The country suffers from an alarming level of hunger while Burundi, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Niger and Sierra Leone
KFC and Pizza Hut have launched the World Hunger Relief Campaign in association with the World Food Programme (WFP) to raise wider awareness about hunger and support the WFP to provide meals to children in schools in order to help ensure that they complete basic education.
