The wife to Kenyan Prime Minister, Ida Odinga, has called on all nations to boost the nutritional needs of their populations, especially that of mothers and infants, as a strategy of achieving sustainable development.
COUNTRIES with high gender inequality gaps are more likely to have hunger and malnutrition, says a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war's damage to the social fabric, say nutritionists, who call the condition "a social problem".
Each pilgrim to this year's hajj from Jigawa State will be fed free by the state government throughout the 40-day stay in the holy land and the meals per pilgrim throughout the period will cost government N32,000, state Pilgrims' Welfare Board's Executive Secretary Alhaji Suleiman Usman said at a press conference in Mecca yesterday.
In its continued quest to make Nigerians healthier and richer, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc yesterday launched Honeywell wheatmeal into the nation's market. The new product is expected to meet all nutritional and health needs of all Nigerians of all ages.
UNITED States (US) Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders has challenged Federal Government to adopt appropriate mechanisms to achieve long-term food security saying "Nigeria is the largest importer of rice globally."
Hundreds of Tonota College of Education (TCE) students launched a hunger strike on Tuesday decrying the quality of bread supplied by a local bakery.
NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again emphasized that Micronutrients such as vitamin A Iodine, Zinc to mention a few are the ultimate solution to malnourishment which indeed affects most Nigerian children.
Christian church leaders have been blamed for being too docile and playing a spectator role in their communities.
South Africa is satisfied by the outcomes of this week's World Food Summit, including the adoption of a declaration that serves as a basis for addressing the challenge of hunger faced by a billion people worldwide.
ABOUT 150 Kenyan refugees arrived at the Malaba border on Thursday from Kiryandongo in Masindi. This brings to 210, the number of refugees who have voluntarily returned home in two months.
Less than 24 hours, heads of state and government will reach a consensus on how to stamp out the ugly world monster-hunger-when they converge for the World Summit on Food Security under the directive of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations .
President Mugabe has thanked the Food and Agriculture Organisation for assisting Zimbabwe boost household food security through a US$70 million input facility targeting smallholder farmers.
A UN summit on food security vowed in a final declaration Monday to take "urgent action" to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people around the world.
A total of 379 students have graduated with diplomas and certificates in catering at Jimmy Sekasi Institute of Catering in Budo, Wakiso district. The 7th graduation on Friday had 312 females and the rest males.
