FOOD FOR THOUGHT #4

“Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.”

Earle Gray

Do you know fifteen percent of the Indian population every night sleeps hungry? This week India Loud and Clear talks about the issues of Food crisis. The issue which hardly finds its place in media reports, Prime-time or in sensational or breaking news.194 million Indians are undernourished. Recently out of 117 countries, India ranked at 104 at the Global Hunger Index.25% of all hungry people worldwide live in India. Since 1990 there has been some improvements for children but the proportion of hungry in the population has increased. In India 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight. 72% of infants and 52% of married women have anaemia.