An important discussion on hunger, mortality and the International Humanitarian Community’s definition of famine.
Tag: malnutrition
USAID Promotes Urgency as Pandemic Hides a Nutrition Crisis
USAID indicates that the pandemic is imperiling nutritional gains around the world and makes their work more urgent.
Our Food is Killing Too Many of Us
Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care.
All hands on deck: Halting the vicious circle of stunting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world with a growing number of children under the age of five who have stunted growth, meaning they are too short for their age. Although the number of children affected by stunting globally has decreased drastically since 1990, Africa is the only region that has seen an increase in the number of children stunted despite a decrease in the prevalence of stunting.
One in five people are eating themselves to an early death: Global study
Millions of people are dying around the world from poor diets, often packed with sodium and lacking in whole grains and fruits, according to a study published Wednesday.
Fighting ‘hidden hunger’ with fortified foods
Globally, up to 2 billion people do not get enough essential vitamins and minerals from food, according to the 2018 Global Hunger Index, which tracks and measures efforts to fight hunger, indicating that many of the affected are expectedly in poor countries.
Only Acting Together Can We Stop the Rise in Malnutrition
The number of undernourished people increased for the third consecutive year in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has exceeded 39 million people. In addition, almost one in four adults is obese, while overweight affects 250 million; more than the entire population of Brazil.
Sustainable Development Depends on Better Nutrition for All Nations
From cold chains and blockchains – major technological revolutions are on the brink of transforming food systems. While cold chain technology can prevent losses as food travels from farm to market, blockchain technology can help digitally and accurately relay vast amounts of data between networks of farmers, traders and vendors. All this can help reduce transaction costs, reduce financial barriers to accessing markets and build trust in the provenance of food, from farm, forest and ocean to fork.
Malagasy children bear brunt of severe drought
Voahevetse Fotetse can easily pass for a three-year-old even though he is six and a pupil at Ankilimafaitsy Primary School in Ambovombe district, Androy region, one of the most severely affected by the ongoing drought in the South of Madagascar. “Fotetse is just like many of the pupils here who, due to chronic malnutrition, are much too small for their age, they are too short and too thin,” explains Seraphine Sasara, the school’s director.
These 2 boys were born the same day in the same town, but their lives will be dramatically different.
How chronic malnourishment damages the bodies and brains of 1 in 4 children worldwide.
