Poverty policy and regulation
Food security
Food fortification must improve Lao people’s health
The level of chronic malnutrition in Laos has decreased from 44 percent in 2012 to 33 percent in 2017. However, the country still has the highest rate of malnutrition in the South East Asian region making the population’s intake of quality nutrients a challenge.This was ...
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Every Stunted Child Deprived In Three Or More Areas Of Well-Being
(KPL) The report “Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis on Stunting among children under 5 years, Lao PDR” released on Jun 20 indicates that at both national and provincial levels, every stunted child in the Lao PDR is also deprived in three or more areas of well-being, ...
Prices of consumer staples under control: Lao PM
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government is endeavouring to stabilise the prices of various goods, including food items, against the backdrop of rising costs in the processing industry, the Prime Minister advised the National Assembly.The value of traded goods in the first four months of ...
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WFP starts handover of school feeding program to Laos
OUDOMXAY, Laos, May 16 (Xinhua) — The World Food Programme (WFP) has handed over its school feeding program in more than 500 schools to the Lao government.A ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Bor village school in Oudomxay, some 310 km north of Lao ...
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Laos, World Bank partnering to improve nutrition
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The government and the World Bank have approved two new projects costing more than 451 billion kip (US$52 million) that will jointly address high levels of stunting in the northern provinces. A project titled Reducing Rural Poverty and Malnutrition will lay the ...
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Phongsaly advised to unify efforts in battle against malnutrition
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Phongsaly health authorities must improve healthcare standards if they are to take action against malnutrition with the long term aim of ending hunger.This was the advice given by the Director General of the Hygiene and Health Promotion Department under the Ministry ...
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DPM urges ongoing nutrition investment in local communities
Laos still needs to continue investing in nutrition at the local level to create an enabling environment in which communities can produce and access nutritious food for themselves.While the Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS-II, 2017) reported stunting has decreased from 44 percent in LSIS-I to ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Underweight Kids On Road To Recovery with Nutrition, Ante-Natal Efforts
Nutrition is still an issue in developing countries including Laos. Causing delayed growth and resulting in long-term impairments if not addressed, is both a result and cause of poverty in rural areas including Savannakhet’s Xepon.More ...
UNICEF
Poverty, hunger worsened by challenges at home, worldwide
A number of persistent problems have worsened poverty and hunger in countries across the globe including Laos, a minister told an event yesterday that marked World Food Day, and International Day and National Week for Poverty Eradication.More ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
Climate change threatens nation’s food security
Climate change is threatening agricultural production and posing a major challenge to Laos and other countries’ efforts at strengthening world food security, according to a leading official.More ...
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