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Starved of data: India’s hungry people go missing from FAO report -TK Rajalakshmi

-Frontline.in

FAO’s latest report found world hunger rising. However, India’s data on food insecurity is missing.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2022” report begins with a dismal piece of data: the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet has increased by 112 million to touch 3.2 billion, a reflection of rising food prices during the pandemic.

The report, a joint effort with UNICEF, WHO, WFP, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, provides an assessment of the prevalence of undernourishment, which is used to measure hunger, and the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity (PMSFI) based on the food insecurity experience scale (FIES), a widely accepted index.

But here is the thing: The FAO report has PMFSI data for many countries, but not India. India has not allowed the publication of this data, and the figures, specifically from 2014 to 2021, are absent from the tables appended in the FAO annexure. The FAO report has data on undernourishment in India as well as India-specific data for stunting, wasting, child and adult obesity, and anaemia among women.

Food insecurity is a condition where people are uncertain about their ability to obtain food and therefore reduce the quantity and quality of food they eat. Countries that have shared data on food insecurity include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. “India does not give data for these categories [moderate or moderate to severe food insecurity],” said an economist who is familiar with the data compilation process in the country.

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