International Women's Day 2021: While the pandemic has impacted almost everybody, women, especially in marginalised rural communities have been hit harder and one of the biggest challenges faced by them during this unprecedented crisis has been ‘access to food’ ...
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Nutrition
Nutrition
It is important also to educate the community to dispel harmful myths on nutrition of young children, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women. Men’s involvement is particularly crucial as the key enabler to meeting women’s nutrition needs: World Food Programme ...
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Odisha Budget 2021-22: Experts Welcome The Allocation Increase In Supplementary Nutrition Programmes
According to experts, Odisha’s focus on nutrition would translate into better health outcomes for its people in the coming years ...
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Under West Bengal’s Maa scheme, the beneficiaries can avail a platter of nutritious meal which will include rice, dal, a vegetable dish and egg curry for Rs. 5 ...
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Budget 2021: Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, announced the Union Budget for the financial year 2021-2022, and released estimated budget expenditure for various nutrition programmes ...
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Union Budget 2021: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the convergence of Supplementary Nutrition Programme and POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) to launch mission POSHAN 2.0 ...
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Noting that the mid-day meal scheme represents the lifeline for millions of school children in the country, the United Nations World Food Programme India has said as the schools re-open, the scheme will also need to be reactivated with the provision of hot, cooked meals ...
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According to the United Nations, even after five years of the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many key indicators related to food and nutrition still demonstrate slow or no progress and the COVID-19 pandemic will further hinder the work being done to achieve the targets by 2030 ...
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Stressing that Vitamin D is inexpensive and has negligible risk when compared to the considerable risk of COVID-19, researchers on the disease have asked governments to make it part of their strategy against the novel coronavirus ...
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Opinion: Learnings From COVID-19 – Averting Hunger Pandemic By The Way Of Expanding Food Safety Nets
Enabling access to nutritious food is the best vaccine we can have at this time given the health crisis the world faces, write Oscar Mundia from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and Bishow Parajuli from World Food Programme ...
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us of the importance of growing food locally in order to address malnutrition and hunger and to make people self-reliant, says Basanta Kumar Kar, recipient of the Global Nutrition Leadership Award ...
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The latest round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) has highlighted a worrying trend in the prevalence of anaemia among women across all states and Union Territories, especially in the childbearing age (15-49 years) which according to experts, is a contributing factor in anaemia among children also ...
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