Monday, October 14, 2013

India home to a quarter of the world’s hungry: Global Hunger Index report


India home to a quarter of the world’s hungry: Global Hunger Index report

, TNN | Oct 15, 2013, 05.10 AM IST

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India home to a quarter of the world’s hungry: Global Hunger Index report
About a quarter of the world’s hungry, or 210 million, live in India alone. (TOI file photo)
In a striking irony, the number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 by the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on Monday even as world cereal production was estimated at a near record level of 2,489 million metric tons a few days ago. About a quarter of the world's hungry, or 210 million, are in India alone
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