Survey highlights severe nutrition deficiencies in West Bengal tea workers

Study carried out following death of a tea worker due to starvation

Africa Union Commission calls for acceleration of efforts towards malnutrition-free Africa

Experts at the meeting called to strengthen school feeding programmes to alleviate hunger, reap psychological benefits like increased …

Podcast: Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Before the colonialists arrived in North America and Bengal, both regions were thriving with healthy, wealthy communities. Here's what happened next

Children don’t even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present

Almost 50% of adult South Africans are overweight or obese. Poverty and poor nutrition are largely to blame

69% of obese adults from food insecure households where families had little dietary choices

Climate change: Over a million farming households face acute food shortage in Zambia, warns Oxfam 

A severe drought, worsened by climate change & El Nino, has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s planted area

Acute food insecurity: 4 African countries remain at highest concern level

Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan and Sudan remain at the highest level of concern, finds report by FAO, WFP

Simply Put: Hungry country

India bags top spot in child wasting rate: Global Hunger Index

The rate increased to 20.8 per cent among children under five this year

Simply Put: Extreme apathy

People in Asia-Pacific consuming more milk, protein

Transition in diet due to urbanisation and rising income levels, FAO report says

India has highest level of child wasting in South Asia: Global report

The country is only second to South Sudan when it comes to child wasting

Africa must be priority if humanity is to conquer hunger; but it is only getting worse there

By 2030, Africa will be home to the largest number of undernourished people

Less than half of hunger funding needs met, says report

Countries experiencing the worst hunger crisis received less hunger funding

Food insecurity in southern Africa up 10%: Report

The region also faces the triple burden of malnutrition

Simply put: Hunger facts

Thousands may face starvation from February to May in ‘hunger hotspots‘: UN agencies

Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen are on the highest alert

Simply Put: Unparliamentary in India

Acute hunger more than doubled in 10 countries most affected by climate change

Countries among those that emit least; 7 in Africa

Famine in Ethiopia: the roots lie in Eritrea’s long-running feud with Tigrayans

Entire region is classified “hard to reach” for aid convoys

Africa fights hunger with football, Vietnam aims at ‘zero hunger’ by 2025

Millions of people in Asia and Africa are undernourished and malnourished

COVID-19: In a first, public development banks pledge to end hunger, poverty

Commitment by PDBs significant for over 500 million small landholders 

Simply Put: War fuels hunger

Simply Put: Poor feel the heat

Hunger meter: How India fared over the years

A lookthrough of five factors and how the country's performance has changed