Right to Food, India
Legally entitled to a full stomach
By the time I finish writing almost 180 people would have died of chronic hunger in the country. * 1/3rd of the worldÂ’s hungry live in India. * 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day. * Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight. * 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars. * Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day. * 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anaemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anaemic. * The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).
Sources :
UN World Food Programme
UN World Health Organization: Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, 2006
UN Food and Agriculture Organization: SOFI 2006 Report
National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (India)
National Family Health Survey 2005 – 06 (NFHS-3) (India)
Centre for Environment and Food Security (India)
Rural 21 (India)
Food is the most important basic need of humans. Therefore the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and numerous national and international constitutions include a “Right to Food” clause. India is one of the countries that implicitly include the right to food in their constitution – at least, the wording of the constitution allows this interpretation
Malnutrition – also called “hidden hunger” – refers to deficiencies of calories, protein or nutrients. In short it lead to undernourishment and increased vulnerability to illnesses and almost always has serious physical and mental effects. Over
By the time I finish writing almost 180 people would have died of chronic hunger in the country. * 1/3rd of the worldÂ’s hungry live in India. * 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day. * Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight. * 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars. * Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day. * 30% of newborn are of low birth weight, 56% of married women are anaemic and 79% of children age 6-35 months are anaemic. * The number of hungry people in India is always more than the number of people below official poverty line (while around 37% of rural households were below the poverty line in 1993-94, 80% of households suffered under nutrition).
Sources :
UN World Food Programme
UN World Health Organization: Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition, 2006
UN Food and Agriculture Organization: SOFI 2006 Report
National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (India)
National Family Health Survey 2005 – 06 (NFHS-3) (India)
Centre for Environment and Food Security (India)
Rural 21 (India)
Food is the most important basic need of humans. Therefore the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and numerous national and international constitutions include a “Right to Food” clause. India is one of the countries that implicitly include the right to food in their constitution – at least, the wording of the constitution allows this interpretation
Malnutrition – also called “hidden hunger” – refers to deficiencies of calories, protein or nutrients. In short it lead to undernourishment and increased vulnerability to illnesses and almost always has serious physical and mental effects. Over