(c) Undernourished population

Terribly undernourished. Consumptive, I'd say.

He had a fourthclass ration book and he was undernourished.

Two 750 gram packets of Thriposha are distributed to selected undernourished beneficiaries.

And not just us, but the two billion people worldwide who are still chronically undernourished.

In the camp, 64 per cent of the population were undernourished, 45 per cent seriously.

At present, one billion people live on less than 1 per day and 831 million people are undernourished.

Part of the urgency comes from the fact that, of order, a billion people on the planet currently are undernourished or starving.

The Inspectors have concluded that in terms of financial and human resources, UNCCD is undernourished as compared with the other two sister Conventions.

265. It is remarkable to note that according to the budget consumption surveys undernourished persons are found in all income groups, even the highest.

With 852 million people being undernourished, I strongly believe that the international community needs to renew its commitment to the promotion of sustainable rice production.

In some areas of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal, the price of food especially millet doubled, while prices for undernourished cattle and other livestock plummeted.

However, when I made the acquaintance of the boys on the Left Bank, I found that they lived in squalid garrets, and most of them were miserably undernourished.

Food supplements for baby boys and girls between ages 4 months and 2 years, undernourished boys and girls between ages 2 and 5 years and pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Often the target populations of poverty eradication projects are perceived as masses of undernourished people, overwhelmed by their circumstances and needs rather than capable agents of change in their communities.

However, low earnings are not the sole problem even in households with undernourished children the consumption of energy foods out of any additional income earned can be low for these children.

In 1990 the poorest population (same income groups as in 1980) represented 13.82 per cent of the total population and included 2.4 per cent of the undernourished, i.e. half the 1980 figure.

There are more than 250 million children in South Asia who are undernourished, and more than 30 million children who do not go to school. Over one third of adult women are anemic.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights noted that according to the World Bank, at least 17 million Nigerians are undernourished, many of whom are children (E C.12 1 Add.23, para. 26).

In sub Saharan Africa, poverty has continued to rise and over one third of the population is undernourished. There has been a net addition of more than 63 million people to the ranks of the poor.

While many countries in the developing world home to 827 million of the world's undernourished (compared to 838 million in 2010 2012) have moved toward halving, by 2015, the share of hungry people relative to 1990, the average rate of decline is inadequate to meet the target in the next two years. The more ambitious WFS target of halving the total number of hungry people worldwide is even more distant, with the number of undernourished people having fallen by only 17 since 1990 1992.

One effective, under appreciated intervention is providing micro nutrients to those who lack them. Providing Vitamin A and zinc to 80 of the 140 million or so undernourished children in the world would require a commitment of just 60 million annually.

Save the Children, obviously, is most concerned about the 53 of Gaza population that is under 18. The statistics say 10 of children are stunted so undernourished before the age of two that they never grow to their full potential.

Today's extreme poverty line is inadequate to avoid being undernourished in Nicaragua, for example. Although the share of people living in extreme poverty in 1990 was halved by 2010, progress will have to accelerate considerably to halve the prevalence of under nutrition by 2015.

On 16 October, at the observance of World Food Day and the fifty ninth anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), it had been announced that 840 million of the world's people, mostly in the developing countries, were undernourished.

As farmers, mothers, educators, and innovators, women provide a critical link between food production, consumption, and future progress on food security. Indeed, giving female farmers access to the same resources as their male counterparts could reduce the number of undernourished people worldwide by 100 150 million.

The new policy of the DIF seeks, before extending coverage, to improve focus under the criteria of increasing services and guaranteeing their quality, thus providing care for priority individuals, families and communities, with particular emphasis on children undernourished, at risk or abandoned and indigenous communities and peoples.

Nonetheless, despite rapid progress in trade, technology and industry, 800 million people in the developing world remained chronically undernourished and more than 80 countries were failing to produce enough food for their peoples, some even failing to import sufficient quantities to make up for the shortfall.

3. Considers it intolerable that there are around 840 million undernourished people in the world, that every seven seconds a child under the age of 10 dies, directly or indirectly, of hunger somewhere in the world and that more than 2 billion people worldwide suffer from hidden hunger or micronutrient malnutrition

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, 4 per cent of children under 5 are undernourished, 10 per cent are slow in growth or too low for their age, and 6 per cent of children are low in body mass in relation to their age, but this figure should be interpreted with care.

In addition, as a form of support for the nutritional requirements of family members, food supplements are distributed to all boys and girls between the ages of four months and two years, to all undernourished children between the ages of two and five and to all pregnant or nursing women.

88. With 800 million people chronically undernourished, the World Food Summit, which was to be held in Rome in November 1996, must focus on the search for ways to eliminate hunger and malnutrition worldwide and provide food security for all, while giving attention to the multi faceted nature of food security.

That occasion will be followed by the 100th anniversary of Kim Il sung s birth on April 15 and the 80th anniversary of the creation of the People s Army on April 25. The country s undernourished masses are not being invited to the capital, Pyongyang, for the extravagant parades that will be held at enormous cost.

413. According to the demographic and family health survey (ENDES) 1991 1992, 17 per cent of pregnant women nationwide are undernourished, this figure increasing to 21.7 in the case of women aged 15 to 19, to 23 per cent for women in rural areas and to 30 per cent among women with no formal education.

Looking as far back as August 1974, the Bucharest World Population Conference regretted the fact that a considerable portion of the world population was living in regions of precarious food supply, that millions of its inhabitants were undernourished and that millions were faced with possible starvation (Report of the United Nations World Population Conference 19 30 August 1974 E conf.

114. Almost half of the population lives below the poverty line. The most recent annual UNDP Human Development Report indicates that just over one half of the population has access to health services and only 36 per cent have safe water. Life expectancy is estimated at 52 years. It is also reported that 40 per cent of children under five are undernourished.

Considers it intolerable that there are about 852 million undernourished people in the world, that every five seconds a child under the age of 5 dies from hunger or hunger related diseases somewhere in the world, when, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the planet could produce enough food to provide 2,100 kilocalories per person per day to 12 billion people, twice the world's present population

Considers it intolerable that there are about 852 million undernourished people in the world, that every five seconds a child under the age of 5 dies from hunger or hunger related diseases somewhere in the world, when, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the planet could produce enough food to provide 2,100 kilocalories per person per day to 12 billion people, twice the world's present population

3. Considers it intolerable that there are about 842 million undernourished people in the world, that every five seconds a child under the age of 5 dies from hunger related diseases and that more than 2 billion people throughout the world suffer from hidden hunger or micronutrient malnutrition when, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the world produces more than enough food to feed its entire population

3. Considers it intolerable that there are about 852 million undernourished people in the world, that every five seconds a child under the age of 5 dies from hunger or hunger related diseases somewhere in the world, when, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the planet could produce enough food to provide 2,100 kilocalories per person per day to 12 billion people, twice the world's present population