Aahaar Kranti Mission: A Vaccine for Global Malnutrition Woes - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper
May 23, 2021 Share Even before the pandemic began last year, a greater part of the world was already facing the problem of malnutrition. According to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), 21.3 per cent of the children were stunted due to lack of nutrition in 2019. 4 out of 5 of these stunted children lived in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The Coronavirus pandemic has put into spotlight the issue of hunger as one of the major calamities which could follow the economic devastation in the South countries. Keeping the threat in mind, the United Nations has declared 2021, as the ...