Webpages tagged with «food»

An estimated 38 million people in the world today are vulnerable to famine and 815 million suffer from various forms of hunger. No country epitomizes the hunger challenge better than India. The country's much touted success in preventing famine due to democratic political institutions (as famously argued by the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen) has not been replicated in the field of chronic hunger, which remains a major concern and affects large groups in the population. 

The project seeks to explore and analyze how public and private actors influence the politics of nutrition through a case study of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and its influence on nutrition policy-making in Tanzania.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is a collection of photographs that provides a window into one of the most intimate things that we do: eat.

In a couple of weeks the Indian electorate will participate in what is sure to be the biggest exercise in universal franchise in world history,