A GHI score has been calculated for all the countries on the basis of the proportion of a country’s child population that is undernourished, share of children under five years of age who have insufficient weight for their height or whose height is not commensurate to their age, and the mortality rate of children of under five years of age.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2017′ report, estimates that 190.7 million people are undernourished in India. We are home to the largest number of hungry people in the world. Despite improvements in the last few years, the condition remains worrying, with consequences ranging […]

Food wastage is an alarming concern, each one of us has come across some scrounger searching for food in a dustbin. Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2013, reflects that India ranks 63rd, out of the 78 hungriest countries. We rank significantly below our neighbours Sri Lanka (43rd), Nepal (49th), Pakistan (57th), and Bangladesh (58th). According to […]