-Deccan Herald India scored 29.1 in the 2022 GHI; the index categorises scores between 20 and 34.9 as denoting a 'serious' level of Hunger There is something familiarly disquieting about the manner in which the Union Government has discounted India’s low ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI), released earlier this month. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, in an official response, said that the methodology used in the peer-reviewed report,...
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A state of denial: India's response to global reports -Dipa Sinha
-Deccan Herald As is the case with all indices that try to capture a complex reality in one single number, the GHI also suffers from a number of limitations When India was ranked 107 out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI), the Ministry of Women and Child Development 'rejected' the ranking, claiming there were serious methodological flaws in how the research was conducted. Time and again, the Indian government...
More »India Ranks 107 On Global Hunger Index 2022, Government Calls It An ‘Erroneous’ Measure -Aastha Ahuja
-Swachhindia.ndtv.com India has ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022, the peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide and WeltHungerhilfe New Delhi: India has ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022. The peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide and WeltHungerhilfe, termed the level of Hunger in India as ‘serious’ as its GHI score is 29.1. India’s neighbours...
More »Rural India falls prey to processed foods -Kankana Trivedi
-VillageSquare.in The lure of processed fast food is not just an urban India problem - rural Indians are finding it increasingly hard to resist readily available junk food as a recent survey from the Development Intelligence Unit shows. Many of us have fond memories of drinking roohafza and eating homemade fryums. OK, fryums are a deep-fried potato snack and roohafza might have fruit and herbs as its base but is loaded with sugar. Still,...
More »India’s real food problem isn’t Hunger but loss and wastage -Shweta Saini and Pulkit Khatri
-ThePrint.in Food losses can't be brought to zero; even developed nations like Ukraine experience it. But this analysis highlights a low-hanging problem and a solution to it. On 14 October, the Global Hunger Index 2022 was released. Out of 121 countries, India ranks 107, and the level of Hunger and undernutrition in the country is now at “serious” levels. India’s rank on this index has been worsening since 2020 — 94 in...
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