A paper by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) suggests that the decline in povert...

India's neighbouring countries Pakistan (102th), Bangladesh (81st), Nepal (69th) and Sri Lanka (60th) have fared better than it in the inde...

The Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters and the Ukraine-Russia war have increased undernourishment in South Asia, making its food security...

According to the 2022 GHI rankings, India has slipped six places and ranked 107, out of 121 countries. The Centre had earlier called the re...

The government is considering carrying out a food consumption survey, last done in 2012 to get updated data on consumption patterns across ...

GHI remains a misleading hunger index as its methodology ignores genetic factors for which norms on stunting and wasting may not be applica...

This ordinal valuation of ranking often masks the kind of changes taking place, which may be gradual and in the right direction. The simpli...

A report issued jointly by five UN agencies said hunger outpaced population growth in 2020, with nearly 10% of all people estimated to be u...

While obesity is still at a nascent stage in India, it very much remains an issue that needs tackling by policymakers. The foremost task is...

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, released on Monday, estimated that almost 690 million people globally were undern...

"We need to see how to create the culture of bringing angel investors for these small enterprises, how to bring technology...we have to see...

"The government of India is committed towards tackling the challenges through some of the recent initiatives of various like Swasthaya Bhar...

According to a study released by United Nation's FAO, India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194.6 million, ...

Globally , the number of undernourished people has fallen by 216 mn between 1990 and 2015. However, India's contribution to this fall has b...

Malnutrition is widespread among children in Haryana with nearly 50 per cent below the age of five being undernourished, a health official ...

India has cut the number of undernourished by less than 10% since 1990 & is one of the nations FAO says won't meet its MDG target.

Three key international organizations working on food security have revised the number of people in hunger globally downwards from 1 billio...