Pakistan Observer published an article stating that India needs to tackle the risk factors for food insecurity to meet its targets to eradicate hunger, according to food experts and activists. Senior research fellow Purnima Menon said that while the target of zero hunger for India is “challenging,” it is hard to predict whether the country will achieve the target as the “current trends suggest that it could be challenging.” Among other comments, Menon said, “The combination of economic slowdowns even before the pandemic, the massive challenges related to the pandemic, and now the challenges of inflation and unemployment are all creating conditions where previous research has shown that food insecurity is likely to rise,” said Menon. “To achieve the zero hunger goals, all these challenges need to be acknowledged and faced and then actions need to be put in place to tackle each of the risk factors for food insecurity.”
