Widespread malnutrition and starvation in at least some parts of the country is a reality in North Korea.
Increases in malnutrition are expected to be especially severe in countries where large populations depend on rain-fed subsistence farming.
Many of the new arrivals are still suffering from malnutrition and malnourishment after enduring often long and arduous journeys from famine-stricken Somalia.
R. K. Pandey, the manager, blamed local men for the persistent malnutrition in the district, saying they often sell the subsidized wheat on the open market and buy alcohol.
Global droughts continue to ravage farmland, intensifying widespread malnutrition and poverty.
The scientists found evidence of a number of diseases that are related to maternal malnutrition and poor prenatal care.
The way we have made progress against disease, malnutrition, and environmental degradation in the past is by growing, by discovering, and by innovating.
The children's stomachs were distended by malnutrition.
The shocking prevalence of malnutrition rises to up to 80% of children in some rural villages.
And just outdoors in the facility's grounds, in a child feeding centre, the World Bank President will see the staff's efforts to deal with child malnutrition.
Thousands of children in Africa succumbed to malnutrition.
Girls not fully grown, or women stunted by malnutrition, often have small pelvises that make them prone to obstructed labor.
Giving women better access to land and credit and promoting gender equality could do more to reduce hunger and malnutrition than any of the other MDGs, the report stressed.
When people think of malnutrition, they usually picture its most acute form-listless infants with bloated bellies, the little victims of famine.
Stocking said bringing in emergency food supplies to stem hunger, malnutrition and starvation is vitally important.
Unless the world responds, we are in danger of losing a generation to hunger and malnutrition.
Protecting livestock against diseases and preventing their spread is one of the keys to fighting hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in over 50 years; child malnutrition rates are more than double or triple the 15% emergency threshold and are expected to rise.
Congress ordered the review after the deaths of several zoo animals, including two rare red pandas, which swallowed rat poison in 2003, and two zebras, from malnutrition and hypothermia in 2000.
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