Asia
The Country Winning The Battle On Food Waste
South Korea has managed to increase food waste recycling levels from 2 percent to 95 percent....
The Food Insecurity Of North Korea
In the 1990s, a devastating famine struck North Korea. According to international observers, a combination of drought, flooding and government mismanagement decimated food production....
Locals face graver food insecurity in Bangladesh
The “2019 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC)” was released by the Global Network against Food Crises, whose members include the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme, and the European Union. “In Cox's Bazar the influx of refugees has aggravated the a...
Philippines El Niño task force to prioritize water, food security
The Philippines Department of Agriculture reported the damage to the agricultural sector has reached P4.35 billion from 149,494 hectares affecting 138,859 farmers and fisherfolk nationwide....
Impact of a National Early Childhood Development Program on Schooling Attainment
India is home to an estimated 114 million children under the age of five years – the largest population of this age group in the world. Undernutrition is common; thirty percent of all children and 45 percent of adolescent girls are underweight and 39 percent are stunted....
North Korea warns of food crisis, slashes rations before next leaders’ summit
North Korea has warned that it is facing a food shortfall of some 1.4 million tons in 2019 and has been forced to almost halve rations, blaming high temperatures, drought, floods and United Nations sanctions in a memo seen by Reuters on Thursday....
How Blockchain Can Be Used to Address Food Security in India
Every night, 200 million people in India go to sleep with hungry stomachs. Ranked 105th on the 2018 hunger index, India is home to the largest undernourished population in the world. These grim statistics are counter intuitive in light of India’s significant gains in agriculture production, which ...
Nearly six thousand Afghan farming families severely affected by drought targeted for emergency assistance
With the approval of the Government of Afghanistan, the Republic of Korea and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to provide emergency assistance to some 5 800 drought-affected vulnerable farming families in two of the worst drought-affected provinc...
Hunger risk for tamariki
In New Zealand, one in five children are at risk of going hungry, with Māori around twice as likely as non-Māori to live in food insecure households....
India Not On Track To Reach 2025 Nutrition Targets Or Achieve Zero Hunger By 2030
Increased food security and access has led to fewer malnourished and anaemic Indians in 2017 than in the preceding decade, but India needs to do much more to meet its nutrition goals, the 2018 Global Nutrition Report (GNR 2018) has shown...
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