India is home to 194.6 million undernourished people in the world, according to the State of Food Insecurity
India’s record is worse than the average of 12.9% undernourished for all developing regions put together
Home to a quarter of the world’s hungry, India has missed the target set under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of halving the proportion of undernourished by 2015, and the World Food Summit (WFS) target of halving the absolute number of hungry.
India is home to 194.6 million of the 794.6 million undernourished people in the world,
Compared with India, other South Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal have performed remarkably well, said the report, jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,
Higher economic growth in India has not translated into higher food consumption, “let alone better diets,” and the poor may have failed to benefit from growth, it said.
While the proportion of undernourished in India’s population fell from 23.7% in 1990-92 to 15.2% in 2014-16, a decline of 36%, Nepal and Bangladesh reported improved reductions at 65.6% and 49.9%, respectively.
“The situation in India is likely to worsen due to severe cutbacks in the Union budget on key programmes on child nutrition and mid-day meal scheme,”
Other countries in South Asia such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, too, have made progress in reducing hunger, even if the pace has been too slow for them to reach either the WFS or the MDG targets, the report observed.....
Nepal has not only reached the MDG target but has almost reached the threshold of 5% undernourished in its population.
“Inclusive growth provides a proven avenue for those with fewer assets and skills in boosting their incomes, and providing them the resilience they need to weather natural and man-made shocks,” it said.
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India’s record is worse than the average of 12.9% undernourished for all developing regions put together
Home to a quarter of the world’s hungry, India has missed the target set under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of halving the proportion of undernourished by 2015, and the World Food Summit (WFS) target of halving the absolute number of hungry.
India is home to 194.6 million of the 794.6 million undernourished people in the world,
Compared with India, other South Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Nepal have performed remarkably well, said the report, jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,
Higher economic growth in India has not translated into higher food consumption, “let alone better diets,” and the poor may have failed to benefit from growth, it said.
While the proportion of undernourished in India’s population fell from 23.7% in 1990-92 to 15.2% in 2014-16, a decline of 36%, Nepal and Bangladesh reported improved reductions at 65.6% and 49.9%, respectively.
“The situation in India is likely to worsen due to severe cutbacks in the Union budget on key programmes on child nutrition and mid-day meal scheme,”
Other countries in South Asia such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, too, have made progress in reducing hunger, even if the pace has been too slow for them to reach either the WFS or the MDG targets, the report observed.....
Nepal has not only reached the MDG target but has almost reached the threshold of 5% undernourished in its population.
“Inclusive growth provides a proven avenue for those with fewer assets and skills in boosting their incomes, and providing them the resilience they need to weather natural and man-made shocks,” it said.
Read more at: India misses global hunger reduction targets: report - Livemint
