21st Century Progress in Africa: Eradicating Hunger and Poverty (MDG1) in…
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Read more: Getting Good Nutrition Safely to Young Children: Do We Have What It Takes?
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Continued here: New Report: Smart Investment in Nutrition Needed Now
By Humanosphere
This is an outrage that gets little attention, perhaps because it is so chronic and massive and non-dramatic. Something like 165 million children on the planet have failed to achieve normal brain and body development and live at increased vulnerability to illness and early death. Due to hunger, and lack of proper nutrition. Source: Go … Continue reading →
April 12, 2013 Guinea-Bissau ranked as the worst among 45 developing countries assessed in the new hunger and nutrition commitment index. From the Guardian: Guinea-Bissau has stunting rates of 28% and its situation is also considered “alarming” in the global hunger index, but it shows weak political commitment to redress the problems of hunger and undernutrition. Guinea-Bissau fails to invest in agriculture, despite committing to invest 10% of its budget in agriculture as part of the African Union’s Maputo declaration. Access to agricultural extension (advisory) services is weak and its nutrition policies need strengthening through, for example, time-bound nutrition targets. Hanci revealed that sustained economic growth does not necessarily translate into government commitments to tackle hunger and undernutrition. Ivory Coast and Kenya rank 31 and 34 respectively despite solid economic growth
By Humanosphere
Most Americans are perhaps not aware that our approach to food aid overseas is widely regarded as incredibly inefficient, self-serving and, as The Atlantic recently noted, sort of wacky. At the risk of over-simplifying, the problem with the way we do food assistance to poor countries is that the system has been designed to serve … Continue reading →
Today sees the launch of the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI), produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) with funding from Irish Aid and DFID. It looks like it could become one of the more useful annual league tables. It may not be seen as a progressive view in the UK, but I’m a
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Original source: Hunger and Poverty: Still Core to the MDG Agenda
Andrew Seal and Rob Bailey discuss the limitations of data-driven humanitarian efforts, and the lessons learned from the 2011 Somalia famine. In May 2012, the UN Secretary General published a report on ‘Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations.’ The report identified the need to ‘…build systems to support data-driven humanitarian decision making,’ noting that ‘…the current humanitarian system often struggles to furnish timely and consistently reliable information and analysis in order to provide an appropriate response.’ Perhaps there was a certain irony that the UN report was published just 3 months after the end of the famine in Southern Somalia. One year on from its officially declared end, we reflect on what has been learnt from the various evaluations of the response to the famine, and what that says about the limits to data-driven humanitarian decision making. The 2011 famine in Somalia was the most recent to afflict humankind and one of the best documented. It affected extensive parts of Southern Somalia and is thought to have cost the lives of tens of thousands of people, while hundreds of thousands more fled across the border into Kenya and Ethiopia.
Continuing on the ‘new development threats’ theme of yesterday’s post on Big Tobacco, the latest issue of the World Bank’s Food Price Watch looks at the links between increasing food price volatility and obesity. A blog post by the Bank’s José Cuesta starts with a nice counter-intuitive quiz (below). The correct answers, by the way are
By SciDev.net
Child malnutrition among refugees who fled conflict in Myanmar still needs attention, writes Sandy Barron.
By WHO News
31 January 2013 — Adults should consume less than 2,000 mg of sodium, or 5 grams of salt, and at least 3,510 mg of potassium per day, according to new guidelines issued by the WHO.
By Social Science and Medicine
Available online 30 January 2013 Publication year: 2013Source:Social Science & Medicine Currently, there is insufficient evidence regarding which policies will improve nutrition, reduce BMI levels and the prevalence of obesity and overweight nationwide. This preliminary study investigates the impact of a nutrition-education policy relative to price policy as a means to reduce BMI in the United States (US). Model estimations use pooled cross-sectional data at the individual-level from the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC), Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), state-level food prices from the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA) and funding for state-specific nutrition-education programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1992 – 2006. The total number of observations for the study is 2,249,713 over 15 years. During this period, federal funding for state-specific nutrition-education programs rose from approximately $660 thousand for seven states to nearly $248 million for all fifty-two states.
By Humanosphere
A big new push to end hunger called the IF campaign has laudable aims, but this writer contends real change will only come from tackling unfair trade and the financial sector’s power. Source: Guardian A lot of people will be looking at the If campaign to see if it has the potential to achieve its … Continue reading →
