Tag: Hunger
Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurates food distribution CSR initiative at Shatabdi Hospital Kandivali
Mumbai, India: In a significant step towards combating hunger in India’s urban centers, Honourable Minister Shri Piyush Goyal inaugurated Malabar Group’s latest food distribution...
Not profit’s nutrition programme serves 10 million school-going children
Mumbai, India: The Sri Sathya Sai Annapoorna Trust, under the aegis of revered Global Humanitarian Sri Madhusudan Sai, has achieved an unprecedented feat by...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde inaugurates Akshaya Chaitanya centre in Thane
Mumbai, India - Akshaya Chaitanya, a leading initiative in Mumbai dedicated to eradicating hunger in a sustainable and scalable way, announces the expansion of...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Mastercard Teams Up With the Akshaya Patra Foundation To Combat Classroom Hunger
According to UNICEF and Global Health Database, around 33 % of Indian children are malnourished in the country and 66 million primary school children...
How Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can help in Achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: Zero Hunger
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, is one of the 17 SDGs adopted by the United Nations. The goal aims to end...
One Person Dying of Hunger Every Four Seconds: NGOs at UNGA
More than 200 NGOs have issued a warning that "stop the spiralling global hunger catastrophe" by taking swift international action. 238 organisations from 75...
Nobel Peace Prize 2020 Highlights Linkages between Hunger and Wars
Hunger is about so much more than poverty, malnutrition or human development. This was highlighted by the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize that has been...
The road to Zero Hunger
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma Gandhi
Agriculture continues...
Can we Achieve Zero Hunger by 2030?
Hunger and Malnutrition are rising across the globe with increasing population and declining resources. According to a study jointly conducted by Food and Agriculture...
India’s Performance in Global Hunger Index
The rate of child wasting in India increased by 4.3 per cent, placing the country at the top spot among all the countries of...
Reducing food wastage and hunger in India
According to FAO estimates, over 190 million people in India are undernourished (which is approximately 20% of our population). And one-third of world’s stunted children are from...
Tackling food wastage at the source
IIT Gandhinagar has taken the initiative in all of their food joints and canteens for improving food safety and tackling food wastage. All the...
