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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 76% of rural Indians can’t afford a nutritious diet: study

76% of rural Indians can’t afford a nutritious diet: study

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published Published on Oct 17, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2020

-The Hindu

Paper uses latest available food price and wage information from the National Sample Survey’s 2011 dataset.

Three out of four rural Indians cannot afford a nutritious diet, according to a paper recently published in journal Food Policy. Even if they spent their entire income on food, almost two out of three of them would not have the money to pay for the cheapest possible diet that meets the requirements set by the government’s premier nutrition body, it says.

Unlike the Economic Survey’s Thalinomics, which provided a rosier picture of meal costs, this study uses the wages of unskilled workers who make up a larger proportion of the population than industrial workers, and includes items such as dairy, fruit and dark green leafy vegetables that are essential as per India’s official dietary guidelines.

The paper, titled Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India, is authored by International Food Policy Research Institute economist Kalyani Raghunathan and others, and uses the latest available food price and wage information from the National Sample Survey’s 2011 dataset.

The findings are significant in the light of the fact that India performs abysmally on many nutrition indicators even while the country claims to have achieved food security. On Friday, the Global Hunger Index showed that India has the world’s highest prevalence of child wasting, reflecting acute undernutrition. On indicators that simply measure calorie intake, India performs relatively better, but they do not account for the nutrition value of those calories.

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The Hindu, 17 October, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/76-of-rural-indians-cant-afford-a-nutritious-diet-study/article32881678.ece


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