-IPSNews.net NEW DELHI: Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the couple ever able to procure the subsidized rations they are legally entitled to, under a...
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Is there a perfect recipe for estimating the hungry? -Roshan Kishore
-Mint Sunday/ Livemint.com Although there is no unanimity on how to define hunger, different measures enrich our understanding of its various facets In its latest report on Food Insecurity in the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that India has lagged behind other countries in reducing hunger. The share of hungry people in developing regions fell 11 percentage points to 12.3% between 1990-92 and 2014-16, according to its projections, while...
More »Fight against hunger too slow and uneven -Jomo Kwame Sundaram
-The Hindu The Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of chronically undernourished people in developing countries by 2015 is within reach. But progress must accelerate by the end of this year Almost 800 million people, or one in nine in the world, continue to suffer from hunger. The number of hungry people has declined globally by more than 167 million over the last decade, and by more than 200 million since...
More »Inefficient PDS, tardy laws behind India's hunger capital tag
-Hindustan Times India has earned the discomfiting distinction of being home to the highest number of hungry people among 129 countries monitored by the Food and Agriculture Organization. This was revealed in the State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 report. Though India has improved its own record here by reducing the figure from 210 million in 1990-92 to 194 million now, it has fallen behind China in this regard....
More »India Is Home To Quarter Of The World's Hungry, According To UN Report -Betwa Sharma
-The Huffington Post India is home to a quarter of world’s 794.6 million hungry people, and it has more undernourished people than China, according to the State of Food Insecurity in the World published by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), this week. The report finds that India has 194.6 million undernourished people, down from 210.1 million in 1990-1992, which constitute 15.2 percent of its population in 2014-2016. China has 133.8 million...
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