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Global Hunger Index (GHI)
Today's topic is very important as Global Hunger Index 2020 has been released and India has been ranked at 94/107 countries in this year 2020. GHI (global hunger index) report publish every year in October month and jointly publish by Concern Worldwide and Welt hunger half .
Some important facts of GHI
- GHI was first produced in 2006 and 2020 mark the 15th edition of global hunger index
- Aim :- To measure and track huger at global , regional, and country level.
- GHI score is computed using four indicators
1. Under nourishment :- 14% of India's population is undernourished (2017-19) .
2. child wasting :- 17.3% of India 's population face child wasting(2015-19) .
3. child stunting :- 34.7, it has improved significantly ,from 54% in 2000 to less than 35% now .
4. child mortality :- 3.7% , it was 5.2% in 2012 .
1. Undernourishment : - Share of the population with insufficient caloric intake . 2. Child wasting :- share of children under age five who have low weight for their height , reflecting acute undernurishment .
3. Child stunting :- share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition .
4. Child Mortality :- The mortality rate of children under the age of five .
World Hunger
Represented by GHI , Score of 18.2 (moderate level),down from 2000 GHI score of 28.2(serious) .
Covid- 19 pandemic and the resulting economic downturn, massive outbreak of desert locusts in the Horn of Africa ( Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia , Ethiopia) and other crises , are exacerbating food and nutrition insecurity for millions of people. Africa ,south of Sahara and south Asia have highest hunger and undernutrition . the World is not on track to achieve the second sustainable development goal-known as - zero hunger for short - by 2030
With a score of 27.2 , India has a level of hunger that is '' serious''
To combat this problem of hunger, it is needed to take some steps in order to achieve target of SDG by 2030 . for which various schemes and program has been run by the government of India which play major role and also help in reducing the large population to be hungry .
Here some schemes and program are mention that are run by Govt. of India
1. Eat Right Movement :- organized by Food Safety and Authority of India for citizen to nudge them to eat right
2. POSHAN Abhiyaan :- Launched by Ministry of Women and child Development in 2018 , its targets to reduce stunting, undernutrition and Anemia .
3. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana yojana :- It is centrally sponsored scheme executed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development is a Maternity benefit Program being implement in all district of entire country from 1 January 2017 . 4. Food Fortification :- food fortification is the addition of key vitamins and minerals such as iron, iodine , zinc, vitamin A& D to staple foods such as rice , milk , and salt to improve their nutritional content .
5. Nutritional Food Security Act , 2013 :- The NFSA legally entitled up to 75% of the rural population and 50% of the urban population to receive subsidized food gains under the targeted public distribution system.
6. Mission Indradhanush :- it targets children under 2 years of age and pregnant women for immunization against 12 vaccine - preventable diseases
7. Integrated child development services (ICDS) Scheme:- launch on 2 october,1975. scheme offer a package of six services ( supplementary nutrition , pre-school non formal education , nutrition & health education, immunization, health check -up and Referral services ) to children in the age group of 0-6 years , pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Ways forward should be :-
- Strengthening the PDS (public distribution system)
- Focus on Women health and providing her sufficient nutritional foods
- Large scale efforts are needed to feed large section of Indian hunger population, then the actual meaning of removing stunted and wastening completely can be achieved...
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