Topic: Hunger
Idea of setting our backyards as kitchen garden saved us during pandemic: Anaemic women in MP
In a Madhya Pradesh village, 40 anaemic women started kitchen gardening and some have even recovered from anaemia.
Economic repercussions of COVID: 23 ‘hunger hotspot nations’ facing food insecurity
Of grave concern are 23 ‘hunger hotspots’ which over the next four months are expected to face an acute level of food insecurity due to the combined economic repercussions of COVID-19, the climate crisis, and fighting.
How COVID-19 threatens food security
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has aggravated an unresolved global challenge .
The upsurge in the infections has lead to a number of countries face enormous level of food shortage around the world leading to acute hunger.
Millions of children in crisis hotspots ‘on the brink of famine’, warns UNICEF
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, warning that without urgent action, the numbers could rise further.
UN releases $100 million to guard against famine
The United Nations released $100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic fueled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pandemic worsening food insecurity, driving displacement, warn UN agencies
Global hunger and population displacement, which were already at record levels when COVID-19 struck, could “surge” as migrants and those reliant on a dwindling flow of remittances desperately seek work to support their families, a new UN report has warned.
