{"id":35889,"date":"2025-01-21T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=35889"},"modified":"2025-01-21T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T13:20:51","slug":"population-that-cannot-afford-a-healthy-diet-on-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/21-01-2025\/population-that-cannot-afford-a-healthy-diet-on-rise","title":{"rendered":"Population That cannot Afford a Healthy Diet on Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As per a research, published in the journal Nature Food, the<strong> share of the population that cannot afford a healthy diet has been on the rise.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It was conducted under the Food Systems Countdown Initiative, led by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Highlights<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The study evaluates<strong> 42 key indicators of food systems<\/strong>, categorised into five themes:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Diets, nutrition and health;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environment, natural resources and production;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Livelihoods, poverty and equity;\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resilience;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Of the 42 indicators<\/strong>, 20 have been trending in a desirable direction since 2000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is also a rise in the population <strong>experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These indicators, which have worsened globally, <strong>pull down the progress needed to achieve SDGs and other global targets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Global Targets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Goal 2 <\/strong>of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is all about creating a <strong>world free of hunger by 2030.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The 2024 Global Hunger Index<\/strong> score for the world is <strong>18.3,<\/strong> with 42 countries still experiencing alarming or serious hunger.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hunger is most severe in <strong>sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia<\/strong> where the crisis has soared to humanitarian levels.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Little progress has been made on reducing hunger since 2016, and the prospects for achieving Zero Hunger by the target date of 2030 are grim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Status in India<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India<\/strong> has been ranked <strong>105th out of 127 countries <\/strong>in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2024, placing it in the \u201c<strong>serious<\/strong>\u201d category for hunger levels.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 report states that around <strong>224 million people in India<\/strong> faced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2021-22.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>India\u2019s Efforts to achieve zero hunger by 2030<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mid Day Meal Programme: <\/strong>The Programme aims to boost enrolment, retention, and attendance while improving the nutritional status of children in government, local body, and government-aided schools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Food Fortification:<\/strong> The government promotes fortified rice, wheat flour, and edible oils as part of the public distribution system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The National Food Security Act, 2013: <\/strong>The Act provides for coverage of upto 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population for receiving subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Poshan Tracker: <\/strong>The Ministry of Women and Child Development developed the Poshan Tracker ICT application as a key governance tool.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It uses WHO\u2019s expanded tables with <strong>day-based z-scores<\/strong> to dynamically assess stunting, wasting, underweight, and obesity in children based on height, weight, gender, and age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana <\/strong>was launched to alleviate hardships faced by the poor due to economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SakshamAnganwadi and Poshan 2.0 <\/strong>includes key schemes such as the POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi Services and Scheme for Adolescent Girls as direct targeted interventions to address the problem of malnutrition in the country.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/governance\/cost-of-healthy-diet-decrease-in-government-accountability-among-threats-to-achieving-global-goals-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per a research, published in the journal Nature Food, the share of the population that cannot afford a healthy diet has been on the 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