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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Government monitors 26 global indices under GIRG frameworkIndia is actively reviewing its performance across 26 global indices. This initiative, called GIRG, aims to pinpoint weaknesses and impleme...
- Global hunger at new high, 2025 outlook bleak: UN-backed reportIt was the sixth consecutive annual increase in the number of people hit with "high levels" of acute food insecurity, according to the Glob...
- Food bound for Gaza rots as Egypt's Rafah crossing stays shutEgyptian officials and sources say humanitarian operations are at risk from military activity and that Israel needs to hand the crossing ba...
- 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...
- Climate crises drove 27 million children into hunger in 2022: charityExtreme weather events in vulnerable countries drove 27 million children into hunger last year, a 135% increase over 2021. Children account...
- Malnutrition in India: A comprehensive strategy to combat for better futureNot only are important nutrition programmes underfunded, but little funding is also not being used efficiently.
- Govt lines up systemic reforms to lift global index ratingsGrowth across key parameters under watch include travel and tourism competitiveness, livability index, global hunger index, climate vulnera...
- View: GHI a misleading hunger index, may not be applicable to IndiaGHI remains a misleading hunger index as its methodology ignores genetic factors for which norms on stunting and wasting may not be applica...
- India ranks at 94 in Global Hunger Index; experts blame poor implementation, siloed approachThe neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan too are in the 'serious' category but ranked higher than India in this year's hunger inde...
- India aims at improving score on 29 global indices, present ‘accurate’ picture to worldIn all, 18 nodal ministries and 47 line departments will work with state governments on over 800 parameters to ‘drive reform and growth’. T...
- World could face multiple famines of biblical proportions due to COVID-19: UN bodyThe novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last, has so far infected over 2,565,290 people and claime...
- India tops world hunger list with 194 million peopleIndia is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hun...
- Dubious distinction: India leads world hunger list; overtakes ChinaGlobally , the number of undernourished people has fallen by 216 mn between 1990 and 2015. However, India's contribution to this fall has b...
- Deprivatising ration shops and doorstep delivery are two measures that can clear corruptionMalnutrition and hunger are much too serious to wait for completion of bundled projects as solutions to PDS leakages.
- Getting food security rightThe Act on food security must mandate technology-based intervention and well-defined monitoring.
- Global financial crisis badly hit MDGs: WB-IMF reportA new report by World Bank and International Monetary Fund on Friday said it is hampering progress of the other Millennium Development Goal...
- 'South Asia nations will fall short of MDGs'Most south Asian nations will fall short on the MDGs, a set of eight globally agreed development goal due to be achieved by 2015, a study b...
- Most south Asia nations will fall short of MDG:IMF-WBMost south Asian nations will fall short on the Millenium Development Goals, a set of eight globally agreed development goal due to be achi...
- UN ties up with Google, Cisco to fight povertyThe United Nations joined hands with Google and Cisco to launch an innovative online site to track progress toward the goal of halving glob...
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