Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in four decades. Lack of access to food, water and proper sanitation has led to the rise of acute malnutrition cases in the country.

Madagascar drought sparks water shortage and starvation

More than one million people in the south Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat; even as the global leaders sat down to tackle climate change at the high-stakes COP26 summit.

Madagascar battles hunger crisis, children suffer from acute malnutrition

Malnutrition is being deemed as Afghanistan's silent emergency. As per data released by UNICEF, Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of stunting in children under five, that is 41 per cent.

Malnutrition now termed as Afghanistan's 'silent emergency'

Tomas Ojea Quintana, a United Nations human rights expert said that North Korea is facing a “widespread food shortages and malnutrition”. Also read: South Korea to take legal action against defectors sending messages to the North Quintana is a UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

'Widespread food shortages': UN human rights expert on North Korea's situation

In a drive against malnutrition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called for observing the month of September as "Poshan Abhiyan." "Today, due to lack of awareness, both poor and rich families are affected by malnutrition.

To combat malnutrition, PM calls for observing September as 'Poshan Abhiyan'

A frantic mother cradling her seven-month-old baby rushes towards the special paediatric ward in a desolate Pakistan town, his eyes are blank and he is smaller than most newborns.

Millions malnourished in Pakistan despite abundance of food

It took a Supreme Court order to begin the first-ever, much needed, mapping of 9,589 homes, including observation homes, special homes and open shelters across the country.

Child care institutions in India are in dire need of reforms

The Niti Aayog’s recent report on ‘Strategy for New India @ 75’ rightly recognises that the multidimensional determinants of undernutrition are inadequately reflected in policymaking.

Children under age of 3 must be given highest priority in nutrition interventions

Food security usually refers to the adequate consumption of calories. This is the purpose of the National Food Security Act 2013. However, what is needed by the human body is a balanced diet, clean drinking water and sanitation.

A nutrition-secure India should be government’s top priority

By Valentina Gallo The number of children and infants dying before they reach the age of five is startling. While child mortality varies around the world, 5.9 million children under the age of five died in 2015.

More girls die under age five in countries with high gender inequality

Many African countries -- like South Sudan -- struggle for proper food

Food insecurity rising across Africa: United Nations 

A total of 69 toddlers have died in the remote Asmat region

100 in Indonesia's Papua feared dead from malnutrition, measles

Scientists are breeding biofortified crops, such as vitamin A maize, vitamin A cassava, vitamin A sweet potato, iron beans, iron pearl millet, zinc rice and zinc wheat to countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Opinion: Scientists to create a hunger-free world. This is how.

Rajiv Kumar said a real-time data dashboard will be installed for the purpose

Getting rid of malnutrition crucial to build New India by 2022: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

The move was discussed in a department meeting headed by Haryana's Principal Secretary of Health, Amit Jha

Haryana to become first state to fortify essential food items

About 21 per cent of children under 5 are defined as 'wasted' or 'severely wasted' - meaning they do not weigh enough for their height.

India under serious burden of undernutrition: Report

The UN children's agency said preliminary data indicated a full 7.5 per cent of the children crammed into one of the camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district were at risk of dying from severe acute malnutrition

Malnutrition soaring among Rohingya children in Bangladesh: UN

In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition

1.4 million malnourished children could die due to famine in four countries: UN

Juang tribe in Nagada village of Odisha has no access to immediate healthcare and social welfare benefits

22 tribal children die of malnutrition in eastern India village

One in five of over 800 children had severe acute malnutrition, while 16 severely malnourished children 'at immediate risk of death'

200 die in one month at camp for people made homeless by Boko Haram violence

Trucks from the UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent brought a month's supply for 2,400

UN convoy brings food to besieged Syrian town of Daraya

Because of the protracted conflict back home, the resultant malnutrition, and the near complete absence of medical care, displaced people from the African country are generally regarded as the ones most in need of help

Somali refugees in India: The worst of the worst off

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