Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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How childhood stunting reduced in Gujarat: An analysis of change between 1992 and 2016
India comprises one-sixth of the world’s population and one-third of the global burden of undernutrition. Between 2006 and 2016, India made progress in reducing stunting among children below five years;
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Undernutrition in the Philippines: scale, scope, and opportunities for nutrition policy and programming
For nearly 30 years, the rates of both wasting and stunting in the Philippines have been nearly flat. For 2019, the rate of stunting among children under five years of age (28.8 percent) was only slightly
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Levels and trends in child malnutrition: key findings 2021
Child malnutrition estimates for the indicators stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight describe the magnitude and patterns of under- and overnutrition. UNICEF-WHO-WB Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates
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Order of the Karnataka High Court regarding midday meals in Karnataka, 30/03/2021
<p>Order of the Karnataka High Court regarding recommencement of midday meals in Karnataka dated 30/03/2021.</p> <p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Midday_meals_order-Karnataka-HC-March2021.pdf"
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Large-scale school meal programs and student health: Evidence from rural China
Reducing urban-rural gaps in child health and nutrition is one of the most difficult challenges faced by many countries. This paper evaluates the impact of the Nutrition Improvement Program (NIP), a large-scale
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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), India 2019-20: Assam
The 2019-20 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), the fifth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory. This report presents
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State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020
According to WFP’s report, State of School Feeding Worldwide, 370 million children in 199 countries and territories were suddenly deprived of school meals, when schools closed due to the pandemic. That
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Acute malnutrition hits record levels in Yemen with a devastating toll on children under five
Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned. Of these, 400,000 are expected to suffer from severe
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COVID-19: missing more than a classroom- the impact of school closures on children’s nutrition
More than 39 billion in-school meals have been missed globally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic due to school closures, according to a new report released by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti
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Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020: Maternal and child diets at the heart of improving nutrition
The 2020 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Asia and Pacific region, provides an update on progress towards the 2030 targets (SDGs and WHA) at the regional and country level. Selected