Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
TopicGlobal Hunger Index

Topic: Global Hunger Index

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover might not mean end of free speech. Other factors at play

Palash Harle -
Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Not just Global Hunger Index, India’s own govt data shows how worried we should be

Siraj Hussain -
The Modi government has questioned the methodology of the Global Hunger Index. But undernutrition is one of the leading factors of child mortality in India.

‘Unscientific methodology’ — Modi govt on India’s ‘shocking’ rank in Global Hunger Index

PTI -
Reacting to India's 101st rank, the Centre said the publishing agencies haven't done their due diligence & disregard govt's efforts to ensure food security of everyone during Covid.

Hunger Index latest reminder. India should fight malnutrition with more animal-sourced food

Ivica Petrikova -
Feeding children any animal-sourced food is linked with 11% reduction in stunting; feeding them both meat and dairy with a 16% reduction in underweight.

India falls to 101 from 94 on Global Hunger Index, behind Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal

PTI -
The report, prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe, termed the level of hunger in India 'alarming'.

Another 29 cr people won’t have enough to eat this year due to global Covid income losses

Mike Dorning -
Overall, 1.2 billion people in 76 countries will be food-insecure this year. Most of the additional people the USDA expects to fall into food insecurity this year are in Asia.

World hunger surged in 2020, with 1 in 10 people undernourished now

Jessica Eise -
People who are undernourished are chronically hungry, meaning they don’t have enough to eat for a normal, healthy and active life for a period of at least a year.

Even stray dogs don’t go hungry in India, ignore hunger reports, minister says in Parliament

Neelam Pandey -
Union Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala was responding to an AAP MP, who raised the issue of India’s poor ranking in the 2020 hunger index in Rajya Sabha.

Modi is popular, BJP keeps winning, but India’s indicators & global rankings are alarming

Shekhar Gupta -
Govt’s own NFHS, as well as many global non-Left institutions’ rankings have shown a drop in India’s development indicators. This will begin to hurt soon.

India ranks 94 in Global Hunger Index 2020, placed in ‘serious’ category

PTI -
According to the report, 14% of India's population is undernourished and it ranked below neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan in the index.
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Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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