New farm regulations that will increase hunger (Vartha bharati)

Vartha Bharati published an article about the newest Global Hunger Index. The report declared the situation in India to be ‘serious’ with a total score of 27.2. The report suggests that overall malnutrition has been declining in the past few years. However, the IFPRI study, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India in the journal Food Policy (originally an IFPRI discussion paper, Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India)  finds that “Three out of every four (65 percent) of rural India do not have enough energy to buy enough food from the market to give them enough calories to stay healthy. Therefore, over half of India is suffering from malnutrition and lack of food. About 40 percent of children suffer from stunted growth and other severe problems.”