-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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India misses global hunger reduction targets: report -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com New Delhi: 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, according to the State of Food Insecurity in the World...
More »Dubious distinction: India leads world hunger list
-The Times of India India accounts for the highest estimated number of Undernourished people in any single country, with an estimated 194.6 million, or about one in every four such people in the world. Globally, the number of Undernourished people has fallen by 216 million between 1990-92 and 2015, from just over a billion to 795 million. However, India's contribution to this fall has been small, with its numbers down by just...
More »India tops world hunger list with 194 million people: UN report
-DNA India is home to the highest number of hungry people in the world, at 194 million, surpassing China, according to United Nations annual hunger report. At the global level, the corresponding figure dropped to 795 million in 2014-15, from 1 billion in 1990-92, with East Asia led by China accounting for most of the reductions, UN body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in its report titled 'The State of Food...
More »India’s unfinished agricultural and rural revolution -Uma Lele
-The Financial Express The BJP's resounding Lok Sabha victory after years of policy paralysis raised a widely-shared hope that the government, led by PM Narendra Modi, will put India back on track by resuming inclusive growth. And that agriculture and rural development would be at the centre of the agenda. Half the employment still comes from agriculture, though it contributes just 14% to the GDP. India contains the largest number of...
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