Food sufficiency has not resulted in food security: UN official
The country's economy might be growing at an enviable rate but the food sufficiency has not really translated into food security.
By PTI |
COIMBATORE: The country's economy might be growing at an enviable rate but the food sufficiency has not really translated into food security.
"The flip side of the economic boom is that one in every five Indians suffers from hunger," a senior consultant of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN has said.
"In India, food sufficiency at the aggregate level has not translated into food security at the household level," FAO consultant Dr Arumugam Kandiah said.
As many as 214 million people are chronically food insecure and many more, about 40 million, are exposed to natural disasters, Kandiah said yesterday at a seminar on "emerging technologies in food processing and ensuring food safety."
About 50 per cent of children, mostly rural and tribal, were undernourished and stunted, he said, adding about two-thirds of the country's population lived in rural areas and almost 170 million of them were poor.
Though many rural people were migrating to cities, three out of four poor people still lived in the rural parts of the country. For more than 21 per cent of them, poverty was a chronic condition, Kandiah said.
"The flip side of the economic boom is that one in every five Indians suffers from hunger," a senior consultant of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN has said.
"In India, food sufficiency at the aggregate level has not translated into food security at the household level," FAO consultant Dr Arumugam Kandiah said.
As many as 214 million people are chronically food insecure and many more, about 40 million, are exposed to natural disasters, Kandiah said yesterday at a seminar on "emerging technologies in food processing and ensuring food safety."
About 50 per cent of children, mostly rural and tribal, were undernourished and stunted, he said, adding about two-thirds of the country's population lived in rural areas and almost 170 million of them were poor.
Though many rural people were migrating to cities, three out of four poor people still lived in the rural parts of the country. For more than 21 per cent of them, poverty was a chronic condition, Kandiah said.
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