India's Hunger
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RSS body demands action against Global Hunger Index surveyors for ‘defaming India’
The Swadeshi Jagran Manch urged the Centre to take steps against a German NGO which ranked India 107th among 121 countries on the index.
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India ranks 107th out of 121 countries in Global Hunger Index 2022
Centre alleged that the report is an ‘erroneous’ measure of hunger that suffers from ‘serious methodological issues’.
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9.06 crore Indians will go hungry due to climate change by 2030, says report
Temperature across India will rise in the range of 2.4 degrees Celsius to 4.4 degrees Celsius by 2100, said International Food Policy Research Institute.
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79% of Indian households experienced ‘food insecurity’ last year, shows survey
The ‘Hunger Watch’ survey, conducted across 14 states, calculated ‘food insecurity’ based on a scale developed by UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Over 33 lakh children are malnourished in India, Maharashtra has highest number: Report
Over half of these children are in the severe category, according to government data.
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Why does India struggle to battle hunger?
Food insecurity remains an alarming issue due to entitlement failures.
Ananya Sharma
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Global Hunger Index score was calculated using unscientific methodology, claims Centre
The statement came a day after India was ranked 101st among 116 countries in this year’s Global Hunger Index.
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Global Hunger Index: India ranks 101 out of 116 countries, behind Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh
India continued to remain in the ‘serious’ category of the index.
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Global Hunger Index: India ranks 94 out of 107 countries, in ‘serious’ category
While the overall rating improved compared to 2019, India is once again the worst performer in child wasting rates.
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Hunger and malnutrition loom large over India as anganwadis stay shut amid coronavirus pandemic
As jobs are lost and starvation grows, the impact is being felt most by malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers.
Radhika Bordia, Article-14.com
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Global Hunger Index: India’s rank down to 102 out of 117 countries, in ‘serious’ category
The index, which calculates the hunger levels and malnutrition in the word, had ranked India at 95 in 2010.
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Delhi starvation deaths shine light on why malnourished children are not enrolled in anganwadis
These centres are supposed to provide free meals for children and there were four of them close to where the deaths took place.
Vijayta Lalwani
The Field
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