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What's the article about?
- This article discusses the state of food and nutrition security in India and around the world, India's efforts in this regard, and the challenges it poses.
Relevance:
- GS1: Poverty and Developmental issues; Economic Geography;
- GS2: Issues relating to Poverty and Hunger;
- Prelims
Present status:
- around 828 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat
- over 50 million people are facing severe hunger.
- The Hunger Hotspots Outlook (2022-23) — a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) — forebodes escalating hunger, as over 205 million people across 45 countries will need emergency food assistance to survive.
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The World Food Day (October 16):
Millets:
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Challenges:
- The land resources are limited, but the population is growing. Thus increasing production has become imperative.
- the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
- climate change
- spiralling food inflation
- Conflict
inequality.
Solutions to ensure food and nutrition security:
- Sustainable production methods should be utilised to enhance the production
shift from traditional input-intensive agriculture to the inclusive, effective, and sustainable agri-food systems - Maintaining the health of soil, reducing soil degradation
- Growing climate-smart crops such as millets
India’s achievements wrt to food & food and nutrition security:
- India is one of the largest agricultural product exporters.
- During 2021-22, it recorded $49.6 billion in total agriculture exports — a 20% increase from 2020-21.
- National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 & Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)
PM POSHAN scheme - Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
- An International Monetary Fund paper titled ‘Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from
- India’ asserted that ‘extreme poverty was maintained below 1% in 2020 due to the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY).
Way Forward:
- The promise to end hunger by 2030 is possible only through collective and transformational action to strengthen agri-food systems; better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life.
