By Manipadma Jena New Delhi – India, Sep 25 (IPS) – Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. One in three stunted under-five children out of 155 million across the world now lives…
Category: Food & nutrition
Land for refugees not yet habitable – report
470,000 in need of shelters; 13,418 take part in biometric registration AKM Moinuddin, UNB Staff Writer Dhaka, Sept 25 – The land that has been allocated for the new site for providing shelter to Rohingyas is ‘not suitable’ for habitation…
Silent famile prevails in country – BNP alleges
BNP senior leader Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Sunday alleged that the country’s people have been facing a ‘silent famine’ due to the government’s failure to arrest the prices of essentials. “Whenever Awami League comes to power, the country sees a famine-like…
Global community must step up Rohingya aid: UNHCR
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filipo Grandi said on Sunday that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now. Filipo Grandi told reporters in the Bangladeshi…
79 Rohingyas sent back to refugee camp after detention
Cox’s Bazar, Sept 24 – Police and members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a joint drive detained 79 Rohingya people in Ukhia for eight hours between 12:00 pm and 8:00 pm on Saturday.
Rice prices up as govt stock dwindles: BNP
Dhaka, Sept 21 – BNP senior leader Abdullah Al Noman on Thursday alleged that the rice prices have marked an unusual rise as the government has failed to stockpile enough food grains.
British MPs call Rohingyas repression ‘ethnic cleansing’
Dhaka, Sept 22 – A delegation of three British lawmakers led by the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Bangladesh Ms Anne Main, MP, Thursday endorsed the global condemnation of atrocities on Rohingyas dubbing it “ethnic cleansing” after a…
Mob attack, Red Cross crash hamper urgently-needed Rohingya aid
Myanmar police clashed with an angry mob blocking an aid shipment in Rakhine state, hampering urgently-needed relief efforts for Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence. Communal tensions remain high across Rakhine where raids by Rohingya militants at the end of…
Trump urges ‘strong and swift’ UN action for Rohingya
In strongest US response yet, vice president says violence against Muslim minority sowing ‘seeds of hatred and chaos’. US President Donald Trump wants the United Nations Security Council to take “strong and swift action” to end violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya…
‘Food poisoning’ forces 50 in Thakurgaon hospital
Thakurgaon, Sept 20 – At least 50 people of Singarol village in Pirganj Upazila have been hospitalised since Tuesday evening after they fell sick due to suspected food poisoning.
Balanced approach to food security underscored
GreenWatch Report September 19, Dhaka: Speakers at a training workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday underscored the need for a balanced approach to meet the food security needs of Bangladesh.
17000 farmers to get rehabilitation facilities in Rajshahi
Rajshahi – A total of 17486 flood-hit farmers in Rajshahi will get rehabilitation facilities for recovering their losses. They will get seeds and fertilizer for the cultivation of 1 Bigha land, officers of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of Rajshahi…
Heightened risks of adolescent pregnancy in Bangladesh
Dhaka – Adolescent mothers and their babies face increased health risks in Bangladesh, according to a new study. The study carried out by from researchers at Washington based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) found that adolescent mothers recovered more…
Rohingya refugees could suffer for food scarcity
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water, given the huge numbers fleeing violence in Myanmar, an aid agency warned on Sunday, as authorities began moving people to camps to streamline the distribution…
Rohingya crisis: ‘Last chance’ for Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has “the last chance” to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad, the UN head has said.
First agricultural debate competition at BAU
The first agricultural debate competition was started at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh participating 12 teams from 10 different public & private agricultural subject base universities on Friday. BAU organized the debate competition on agricultural base topics such as agriculture, farmer, agricultural…
Unicef estimates 400000 Rohingya migrated to Bangladesh
United Nations Children’S Fund (UNICEF) today said their estimate suggests the number of Rohingya refugees who fled home since the outbreak latest spate of violence on August 25 reached 400,000. “Up to 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since…
176 ethnic Rohingya villages now empty: Myanmar
Bangkok, Sep 14 (AP/UNB) — Myanmar presidential spokesman says 176 ethnic Rohingya villages are now empty after all residents fled.
Why aid is slow to reach Rohingya refugees
Justin Rowlatt You expect chaotic scenes at the beginning of a refugee crisis of the scale we are seeing here in south-eastern Bangladesh.
‘Sea monster’ on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey
A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.
High zinc rice begins benefitting BD women – children
Dhaka – Bangladeshi women and children suffering from zinc deficiency have started benefitting from the introduction of biofortified zinc rice varieties that have been introduced for production and consumption by smallholder farm households.
Alert: Nature is on the verge of bankruptcy
By Baher Kamal Rome, Sep 12 (IPS) – Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns…
More Co2 in atmosphere produces food crops short of nutrients
Atmospheric CO2 levels of 550 parts per million (ppm), expected to become the global norm by 2050, will shrink the protein, iron and zinc content in wheat and rice, putting 50 million more Indians at risk of deficiency.
How farmers save agriculture by fighting back drought
By Geoffrey Kamadi As sub-Saharan Africa’s climate changes, small-scale farmers are increasingly looking to innovative ways of dealing with agricultural challenges. And in some instances, the techniques they adopt are helping to combat climate change, too.
Floods – hurricanes – droughts… when climate sets the agenda
By Baher Kamal Rome, Sep 11(IPS) – When officials and experts from all over the world started the first-ever environmental summit hosted by China, they were already aware that climate and weather-related disasters were already seriously beginning to set the…
Food security – PSH a priority, but caveats need solutions
Geneva (D. Ravi Kanth) — The chair for Doha agriculture negotiations, Ambassador Stephen Karau of Kenya, has said that the permanent solution for public stockholding programs for food security purposes (PSH) in developing countries remains “a priority issue” for the…
Report on antibiotic resistance identifies new challenges
A comprehensive Australian national report on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Australia has highlighted a number of specific types of bacteria as major emerging healthcare problems, with one type, in particular, causing resistance to last-resort antibiotics in just over…
9 Benefits of honey water you never knew
Kristiena Sartorelli Maybe you only know the benefits of a warm glass of water in the morning or maybe you have only heard about how honey is great for your skin, but have you heard what wonders combining warm water…
Food loss and waste focus of Food Tank’s NY summit
On September 13, Food Tank will host a one-day summit at the WNYC Greene Space in New York City, titled “Focusing on Food Loss and Waste,” in partnership with Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data (ReFED) and with support…
Refugee camps ‘bursting at the seams’ in Bangladesh
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UN, Sep 9 (IPS) – A dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing Myanmar is placing a huge strain on already very limited resources in Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.