Why a one-size-fits-all approach to COVID-19 could have lethal consequences

We are putting in place measures that will lead to malnutrition and starvation for millions of people, and for these horrors, children and …

Bihar schoolkids to grow organic vegetables, fruits for their mid-day meals

After a successful pilot project, 20,000 schools will now be given Rs 5,000 each and asked to develop kitchen gardens

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle ‘hidden hunger’

Belo Horizonte provides a noteworthy example of how innovative, integrated food and nutrition security policies can assist communities

Why are boys more malnourished than girls in India?

Going by a recent study on malnutrition in children in 10 Indian cities, parental bias for boys could be pushing them closer to junk food

Lake Chad Basin: 1.4 million children displaced; many suffer from malnutrition

About 67,000 children under five are likely to die in Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states in September

Children’s right to nutrition: how we can do better

While there has been an improvement in the overall health of children, the annual rate of progression is disappointingly slow

Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler …

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?

Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve

South, Southeast Asia have most of world’s underweight youth: IFAD

Number of those overweight also increasing; more underweights in rural areas 

New Lancet health report lists how bad climate change can hit India

Expect more malnutrition as yield potential of key crops shrink

Multiple exclusions push Odisha’s children into malnutrition death

Nearly 90 per cent of the rural tribal households live in extreme distress conditions with no liquid cash

Global Hunger Index: The labyrinth of India’s eternal tryst with hunger and malnutrition

There is a need to pay attention to the understanding of the factors that stand as barriers between nutrition-orirnted policies and their goals …

Question mark over Bihar kids’ future as mid-day meals in limbo due to pandemic

Malnutrition and stunting among Bihar’s children could rise due to mid-day meals being stopped ever since COVID-19 struck

How balanced soil nutrient management can save Indian agriculture

The ill-effects of imbalanced application of fertilisers — which leads to soil sickness, decline in soil health and reduces crop …

Europe, Central Asia need to tackle poverty, climate change to be hunger-free

Support smallholders, family farmers to reduce poverty, says FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at a regional conference in Russia

Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe

The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam They have low access to nutritious food in spite of increase in number of …

`Family farming is not a romantic idea. It is business'

The food price rise of 2007-08 highlighted that investments in the agriculture sector have reduced in the past three decades. One of the most …

What it takes to deliver midday meal

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India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …