When hunger is a breaking news? (Kashmir Times)

Kashmir Times published an article on the Global Hunger Index. Poverty rates have come down in India. The problem is that malnutrition is not just caused by a lack of calories. It is caused by a lack of nutritious food, water and sanitation, and a healthcare system that is not quite adequate. We know that hunger is about much more than just producing food, you have to also be able to afford the food. A 2020 IFPRI study, A comparison of the Indian diet with the EAT-Lancet reference diet that 63 percent of rural Indians cannot afford a nutritionally adequate diet. This goes beyond calories to things like pulses and dairy and eggs and fish and fruits and vegetables. And 63 percent of Indians living in rural areas can’t afford these foods. So, we need to reduce both poverty and we also need to bring the price of these highly nutritious foods down.