India “hungrier” than North Korea, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Iraq: US report
By RAJIV SHAH A GHI score of between 20 and 34.9 points reflects serious hunger levels; between 35 and 49.9, it is alarming, and extremely alarming […]
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Hunger and the nation: Examining food politics and policy in India
By SWATI SAXENA Learning from the recent starvation deaths in Jharkhand, the nation’s leaders must pay heed to the necessity of ensuring food security for all […]
Feeding India
By Uma Lele Discussions on IFPRI’s Hunger Index illustrate the complexity of India’s malnutrition problem. Solutions must focus on evidence, accountability India’s ranking in the International […]
Forget the Ease of Doing Business, India needs to focus on issues of hunger and poverty first
By Mohan Guruswamy There isn’t much change in the real business climate and India’s performance on development indices is abysmal The Modi government has gone […]
India stuck in cycle of poverty and unemployment
By Wang Jiamei India ranked 100th out of 119 developing countries on the global hunger index (GHI), behind North Korea, Bangladesh and Iraq but ahead of […]
Tackling hunger in India
By Gudipati Rajendera Kumar This year’s report of Global Hunger Index shows that India has slipped three positions from last year — it ties with […]
Death By Starvation, Right To Food & Indian Democracy
By ANURAG BHASKAR On September 28, Santoshi Kumar, an 11-year-old girl in Simdega district of Jharkhand, died because of starving for nearly 8 days. Her […]
How hungry is India and why?
By MOHAN GURUSWAMY India fell precipitously by 45 places since 2014, which is when the Modi regime came into being The Modi regime has received some […]
Centre should increase budget for education and health: Kailash Satyarthi
 “We have to increase our education and health budget which is extremely low. Similarly the state of health budget is worrisome. “According to Satyarthi, it […]
India, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, is hungrier than even North Korea
Home to the world’s second-largest population, the country fared poorly on the Global Hunger Index (GHI, pdf) for 2017 released by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research […]