Siena Chrisman is the Manager of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances at WhyHunger in New York City. She joined WhyHunger in 2005; in her current capacity, she works with organizations and advocates around the country to build the movement for a healthier and more just food system. She is the editor of Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction (Schiffer Publishing, 2004), and holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College. Originally from Amherst, MA, Siena lived in Italy prior to moving to New more...
Food Price Watch
Global food prices continue to rise, though not uniformly for all grains. The World Bank’s food price index rose by 15% between October 2010 and January 2011, is 29% above its level a year earlier, and only 3% below its June 2008 peak. A breakdown of the index shows that the grain price index remains 16% below its peak mainly due to relatively stable rice prices, which are significantly lower than in 2008. The increase over the last quarter is driven largely by increases in the price of sugar more...
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations
On the Table: Global Food Security
Prices for staple foods are more volatile than ever. In the middle of a global recession, will politicians and executives address the problem? Food prices have been on the decline for decades, but the tide has now turned. While farmers and producers profit from the price hikes, consumers all over the world are seeing a growing share of their income go towards buying simple staple foods. Prices for wheat and corn reached record highs in 2007, while global food reserves reached a 25-year more...
Nutritional status of children in India: household socio-economic condition as the contextual determinant
AbstractBackground: Despite recent achievement in economic progress in India, the fruit of development has failed to secure a better nutritional status among all children of the country. Growing evidence suggest there exists a socio-economic gradient of childhood malnutrition in India. The present paper is an attempt to measure the extent of socio-economic inequality in chronic childhood malnutrition across major states of India and to realize the role of household socio-economic status more...
'You Know I'm Hungry, Feed Me Today'
A universal income grant in Namibia would alleviate poverty in one of the most unequal societies on earth, say campaigners. Free handouts only lead to laziness, responds an unwilling government. In Otjivero, a small settlement some 100 kilometres outside the Namibian capital, a coalition of civil society groups moved to settle the argument: a pilot project demonstrating the Basic Income Grant (BIG) has made a real difference. With private funding, all inhabitants of the dusty village – over 900 more...
Determinants of Nutritional Status of School Children - A Cross Sectional Study in the Western Region of Nepal
Abstract: Under-nutrition continues to be a primary cause of ill health and mortality among children in developing countries. Besides poverty, there are other factors that directly or indirectly affect the nutritional status of children. In the present study, an attempt was made to find the prevalence of under-nutrition among school children in 4 – 14 year age group and the role of socio-demographic characteristics of mother on child nutrition. Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study more...
Global Food Price Spike Adding to Civil Unrest - World Bank President
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A record high price in many food staples is pushing millions into poverty and contributing to unrest in countries like Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said this week.In January, global food prices hit their highest point in the 20 years since the United Nations first started tracking the cost of food. The spike in prices has pushed about 44 million people into extreme poverty since June, said Zoellick, speaking prior to a meeting of G-20 finance ministers more...Rising food prices and coping strategies : household-level evidence from Afghanistan
This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices -- during the 2007/08 global food crisis -- on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita food consumption and in food security (per capita calorie intake and household dietary diversity) corresponding to the price shocks. The data reveal smaller price elasticities with respect to calories more...
Food Security Policies in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa and Their Implications for Trade and Regional Integration
Trade and trade policies influence not only food availability at the global level, but also food production and food imports, including food aid, at the national level. This synthesis report draws on three regional policy reports prepared for the Trade Knowledge Network’s project on Food Security and Trade, which describe and analyze the policy responses adopted by countries and (less often) regional organizations to deal with the 2006–2008 food prices crisis. These policy responses are more...
Hunger, Under-nutrition and Food Security in India
Despite rapid economic growth in the past two decades, India is unlikely to meet the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of cutting the proportion of hungry people by half. Per capita availability, as well as consumption of food grains, in India has declined since 1996; the percentage of underweight children has remained stagnant between 1998 and 2006; and the calorie consumption of the bottom half of the population has been consistently declining since 1987. In short, all indicators point more...
Bangladesh: Under-nutrition progress "success story"
Government surveys showed a reduction from 1996 to 2009 in the percentage of children underweight for their age (56 to 43 percent); stunting, or short for age, (55 to 41 percent); and wasting, or underweight for height, (18 to 13 percent) - though this translated into a still high 2.1 million acutely malnourished children. Nevertheless, some notable programmes and policies are in place, according to ACF:. The national poverty reduction strategy sets as a goal nutrition security, while a more...
Volunteer Registration in Pakistan
Awareness campaigns have great role in social development all over in the world, and participation of Civil Society is also very important. White Pearl Foundation aims to encourage the participation through advocacy and training of volunteers.The Advocacy & Awareness program provides awareness to the community on very basic issues;Human RightsWoman RightsEducationGirl’s EducationHealth & HygieneHealthy EnvironmentAnd do advocacy to resolve their problems, protect their rights and more...
Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in India: Emerging Trends and Perspectives by R. Radhakrishna (IGIDR)
The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of National Sample Survey (NSS), National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) and National Family Health Survey (NFHS). It provides an explanation for the slow growth of nutrient intake and slow reduction in malnutrition. The paper demonstrates that multiple factors influence the nutritional well-being of a child more...
Nutritional Status and Knowledge of Hill Women on Anemia: Effect of Various Socio-demographic Factors
The present study was thus undertaken with the objective to assess the nutritional status of rural hill women and to study the knowledge of hill women regarding nutritional anemia . In addition to this, the effect of various socio-economic and demographic factors on the nutritional anemia related knowledge of hill women. Conclusion was that knowledge of rural women was found to be very poor in regard of nutritional anemia, nutritional status of as high as 41 % subjects was unsatisfactory. To more...
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