“February 20, 2017, the world awoke to a headline that should have never come about: Famine had been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced anywhere in the world in six years” – was how the Global Hunger Index, 2017, began its narrative.This became a headline because...
People suffering from severe hunger is not a thing of the past despite progress in many other fronts. Even in the late 1980s when the reporter had been an undergraduate student, a number of economists were doubtful about the possibility of providing enough food at that time to all the citizens of th...
S. Sridharan, a noted yoga expert from Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandir, one of the largest yoga centres of Asia. Q. We are focusing on problems affecting the working professionals especially stress, alienation, depression and insomnia. So how can yoga benefit them with the fact that there time is l...
Is the chicken you get in commercial large scale food vendors, in products like sandwiches, chicken? Perhaps not.Subway is a group that targets health conscious folk, who avoid other fast food. Is it healthy? A recent inves-tigation by CBC Marketplace shows that the chicken used in Subway chicken sa...
If I were a diabetic, would I go for a surgery that promises to halt the disease even for a few years and lastsan hour with a hospital stay of one day? A surgery that would leave four tiny scars on my belly andallow me to eat grilled fish?Well I don’t know and I am not a diabetic. But I have alway...
There is a Kenyan proverb which says a man stung by a bee does not destroy all beehives. Kenyan politicians need to take a cue from this wisdom. In their unrelenting efforts to denigrate each other, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party misused the legislative body and coerced the highest insti...
HYFIE is a social and business payment platform where customers and merchants can exchange goods and services. The users will find some unique social features like destination tracking, group gathering, and live location sharing and tracking and will also find goods and services for their d...
India has about 48 million children affected by stunted growth below the age group of five. The World Economic Forum cautions about the food shortages that it is likely to cause one of the biggest risks to global stability over the next decade due to extreme risks posed by climate change. However, e...
Food waste has become a complex phenomenon attracting the attention of scientists, consumers and activists alike. The fact that emphasis is given to increasing agricultural produce and then a third of all the food produced ends up as waste is being termed as a global paradox.CAUSESLack of appropriat...
eJOHRI is a new addition to India’s e-commerce industry and is dedicated to providing an online jewellery shopping experience to consumers with offline connect. It is India’s omni-channel platform that has a large number of jewellers showcasing their designs online. By providing a common platfor...