Asia

U.N. food agency chief says peace deal would help ordinary North Koreans
A peace agreement with North Korea would go far toward easing the impoverished nation’s chronic food security woes, said David Beasley, head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme. Around 10 million of North Korea’s 25 million people have ...
Only a cohesive action plan can tackle the menacing epidemic of malnutrition and food insecurity in Pakistan
Dr. Mehreen Mujtaba argues that the government of Pakistan needs to address malnutrition and food insecurity comprehensively. 18 percent of the population in Pakistan is severely undernourished and almost half of the population of Pakistan, around 48...

Aid Groups Seek Greater Support for Rohingya Refugees Facing Trauma, Hunger
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are facing serious hunger issues: one quarter of children in the Cox's Bazar camp are acutely malnourished, with 7.5 percent at a high risk of death from severe malnutrition, according to a study published on Tuesday. ...

Indonesia is hungry for a better food policy
Despite years of reasonable economic growth, 19.4 million Indonesians are still unable to meet their daily dietary needs. Rainer Heufers, Executive Director of the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) and Arianto A Patunru, a Fellow in the Arn...

Malnutrition Not Just a Poor Country Problem
New research underscores the fact that malnutrition, while rampant in middle-income countries, is often ignored by donors, leaving those countries to bear the burden of nutrition programs....

Thailand food security report points to increasing malnourishment and obesity in Thailand
Biodiversity, Sustainable Agriculture, and Food Sovereignty Action Thailand Foundation (BioThai) yesterday published its 2017 annual report on the food security situation for Thailand, which revealed a worrying trend of a widening inequality gap in t...
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