Part of: GS Prelims and Mains II – Health; Poverty; Social/Welfare issue
About:
India ranked 102nd on the Global Hunger Index, despite high food production.
Nutritional security requires measures to improve protein and vitamin deficiencies.
Global Hunger Index (GHI) Report
Prepared by the Concern Worldwide (an Irish agency) and the Welt Hunger Hilfe (a German organization)
The report is based on four GHI indicators namely, undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality.
India’s child wasting rate was extremely high at 20.8% – the highest
India’s rank has slipped from 95th position (in 2010) to 102nd (in 2019)
Child wasting
Child wasting refers to the share of children under the age of five who are wasted, i.e, they have low weight with respect to their height, reflecting acute undernutrition.
