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FOOD INSECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan's malnutrition crisis 'spinning out of control': UNChild malnutrition reaches critical levels in Afghanistan as aid is drastically cut. Many acutely malnourished children are being turned aw...- 10 countries are home to two-thirds of world's most hungry: UN-backed reportA UN-backed report reveals two-thirds of global food crises last year were concentrated in just 10 countries, with Sudan, Nigeria, and the ...
- UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in GazaIn 2023, 282 million individuals across 59 countries experienced acute hunger, with Gaza having the largest number facing famine. South Sud...
- Food insecurity, undernourishment increased in South Asia during Covid: ReportThe Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters and the Ukraine-Russia war have increased undernourishment in South Asia, making its food security...
- India to supply 10,000 tonnes wheat to AfghanistanThe MoU marks the fifth tranche, to be shipped through the Chabahar Port, of humanitarian food assistance that India has committed. Last ye...
- 19 million Afghans face food insecurity: World Food ProgrammeThe World Food Programme in Afghanistan said that a survey conducted in February and March indicated that nearly 19 million people are faci...
- Afghanistan embassy expresses gratitude to India for providing humanitarian aid of 50,000 tonnes of wheat"The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in New Delhi expresses its gratitude to the government and people of India for the time...
- Ready to deliver urgent grain, medicines to Afghanistan: IndiaIt may be recalled that India has given grants of around three billion USD for various reconstruction projects in Afghanistan over the last...
- Discussion underway with India over humanitarian food assistance for Afghanistan: UN's WFPResponding to a question if the WFP made a formal request for aid from India, Cecilia Garzon said there is a "positive discussion" underway...
- More than half of Afghans face 'acute' food crisis: UN agencieshe crisis is already bigger in scale than that facing Yemen or Syria, and worse than any food insecurity emergency apart from the Democrati...
- UN World Food Programme in talks with India for wheat donation to AfghanistanMary-Ellen McGroarty, the WFP country director in Afghanistan, said that discussions have taken place over the last two weeks and she hoped...
- Afghans face 'their most perilous hour', warns UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres"After decades of war, suffering and insecurity, they face perhaps their most perilous hour," he said in opening remarks at a Geneva confer...
- 12.2 million people in Afghanistan acutely food insecure: UNThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 735,000 people returned to the country this year from Iran, Pakistan...
- Estimated 2,70,000 Afghans newly displaced since Jan due to violence, insecurity: UNThe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is "warning of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as the escalating con...
- UN says 155 million people faced severe hunger last yearThe report, which focuses on 55 countries that account for 97% of humanitarian assistance, said the magnitude and severity of food crises l...
- Increasing tendency to politicise humanitarian situations is unfortunate: India at UNSpeaking at the UNSC open debate on 'Conflict and Food Security' on Thursday, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambass...
- UN: Pandemic, surging food prices leave many in Asia hungryThe report is mostly based on data up to 2019, before the pandemic struck. But it also estimates that an additional 140 million people were...
- Women empowerment crucial for peace in Afghanistan: IndiaIndia cited the example of an Indian NGO which is working with the women in Afghanistan and providing vocational training
- Rising food prices to push 100 million into deep poverty: WBRising food prices has come on the agenda of the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organistion(FAO) which warned that it could push 1...
- Rising food prices to hit poorest countries: FAOThe fast rising food prices will hit hard the poorest countries whose cereal import is expected to rise by 56 per cent in 2007-2008, a repo...
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