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Articles tagged with #malnutrition
Epicentre of hunger
Despite improvement in maternal and child survival, malnutrition is rife in Nepal’s western mountains
Muktikot still waiting for liberation
Two decades after Maoists promised prosperity, this Dalit village in Nepal has been forgotten
More equal than others
Nepal is lagging behind in meeting 2030 targets on eliminating hunger and reducing inequality
Paddy production falls in west Nepal
Harvest decline will worsen food insecurity, especially in far west Nepal
The Karnali’s hunger emergency
The government’s fortified flour scheme is not a long term solution to the region's chronic food insecurity
Farm to fork
Combatting increased food insecurity caused by the combination of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine crisis and the climate change
The geopolitics of food
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAlready reeling from child hunger and wars in Yemen and across Saharan and central Africa, the developing world is now…
Covid derails child development in Nepal
Photo: SAGLO SAMAJ/HIMALMEDIAThe Covid-19 worsened the disparities in young children’s development and learning in Nepal. One out of five Nepali…
We are what we eat
Misleading commercials in Nepal make families replace nutritious local diets with processed food
Nepal less and less able to feed itself
Despite two-thirds of its population dependent on agriculture, and having fertile land ideal for farming, Nepal’s annual food imports are rising…
UK aid for Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WWF NEPALAs the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government…
Disasters in Nepal come in waves
Mahendra Shrestha, 61, of Melamchi Bazar breaks down as he surveys the damage to his house on Wednesday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepal sits upon a…
Hunger for governance
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
Nepal’s epidemic of hunger
Malnutrition among Nepali children pre-dates Covid-19, but the pandemic has made it worse
UN and DFID join hands for Nepal Covid fight
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe Covid-19 pandemic hit Nepal much later than the rest of the world, and now the country is being battered by a surge of…
COVID-19 impact on food and school in Nepali children
A survey of Nepal’s children during the lockdown has confirmed what experts had feared – that there has been an adverse impact on education and…
Nepal’s out-of-school children get food at home
Children in Nepal are under the risk of severe malnutrition due to loss of household income and resulting food insecurity brought on by the…
Experts caution against extending Nepal lockdown
Children in Gai Jatra procession in Kathmandu on Tuesday even as the risk of COVID-19 looms over the capital. Participants have however taken to…
COVID-19 leaves millions of South Asian children hungry
Photo: Marty LoganChildren are collateral damage in the flight against the COVID-19 pandemic: some 4 million of them in South Asia under the age…
Children are collateral damage in Nepal lockdown
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
EU, UNICEF support child nutrition during lockdown
A mother in Kalikot District measures arm of her child using a MUAC tape after receiving a short orientation on family MUAC NTThe European Union…
Food for thought for Nepal’s nutrition planners
Young children suffering from undernutrition have poorer school achievement, diminished cognitive and language ability, and more behavioural…
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Junk food is making Nepali children shorter
Photos: MARTY LOGANThe publication of a paper last week in The Journal of Nutrition that infants in Kathmandu were getting 25% of their calories…