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Growing appetite for school lunches
But can the Nepal Government that has rolled out meals for students in 71 districts meet expectations?
Covid undermines Nepal's mother-child gains
Photos: UNICEF NEPALDespite periods of political and economic instability, Nepal achieved dramatic progress in maternal and child health in the…
We are what we eat
Misleading commercials in Nepal make families replace nutritious local diets with processed food
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…
The pandemic of hunger
Photo: MARTY LOGANThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of the most neglected communities in Nepal, with a direct impact on the…
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…
Japan to assist Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WFP NEPALThe Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
UK aid for Nepal’s Covid-affected
The UK government has contributed $5.75 million to help Nepal’s most vulnerable 160,000 families to cope with the impact of the pandemic in the…
UK aid for Nepal’s Covid-affected
The UK government has contributed $5.75 million to help Nepal’s most vulnerable 160,000 families to cope with the impact of the pandemic in the…
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…
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…
How will Nepal develop in the next decade?
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…
POOR HEALTH MAKES NEPALIS POORER
Photo : BIKRAM RAIThere used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis,…
Mixed picture for Nepal’s children
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition,…
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…
The superfoods of the Andes and the Himalaya
Amaranth cultivation in Jumla district in NepalPhotos: LI-BIRDThe nutritious grain that mountain peoples of the Americas and high Asia…
No Dasain in Kalikot
Photo: Seetashma ThapaMore than 200 women have gathered outside the district hospital in Manma, the main town in one of Nepal’s most underserved…
Nepalis binge on junk foods the West rejected...
Walk down the aisle of any supermarket in Kathmandu, and there they are arrayed along the shelves: tetrapacks of juice claiming to have the…
Living to eat
The 15-year-old boy weighs 54kg, much more than an average Nepali his age. He is malnourished.His breakfast and lunch consist of biscuits,…