[Assam] News from ToI

[umesh sharma]

thats a revealing bit of data. The earlier World bank
report only talked about Indian eating habits being
responsible for mal-nutrition -even in affluent
families.

Umesh

--- Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:

>   More Indians hungry now than in 1990s
>
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2021594.cms
> 
> Highlighting mine.
> 
> cm
> 
> NEW DELHI: Falling agricultural wages, increasing
> landlessness and 
> rising food prices have severely undermined the
> right to food in 
> rural India with foodgrain availability falling to
> 152 kg per capita, 
> 23 kg less than in the 1990s.
> 
>   Over half of India's women and children are
> suffering from severe 
> malnutrition and chronic undernourishment. Over 47
> percent children 
> are underweight and 46 percent stunted in their
> growth figures higher 
> than most countries in poverty stricken sub-Saharan
> Africa.
> 
>   The poorest 30 percent of households eat less than
> 1700 kilocalories 
> per day per person, well below the international
> minimum standard of 
> 2100 kilocalories per day, even if they spend 70
> percent of their 
> income on food.
> 
>   These are among the findings of the UN Special
> Rapporteur on the 
> Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, who presented his
> report on Extent of 
> Chronic Hunger and Malnutrition in India before the
> UN Human Rights 
> Council in Geneva on Friday.
> 
>   Ziegler's report was based on his visit to India
> from August 20 to 
> September 2, 2005,"motivated by the fact that India
> has the largest 
> number of undernourished people in the world and one
> of the highest 
> levels of child malnutrition".
> 
>   The report, which reviews "the situation of
> hunger, malnutrition and 
> food insecurity in India" and whether the theory of
> "hunger amidst 
> plenty" stands, has made some startling
revelations.>
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