Rice, wheat, milk and sugarcane — India is among the largest producers of these agricultural commodities, yet millions are still starving in the world's most populous country. "Hunger is the biggest ...

On a Sunday in Jaunti, a small village on Delhi's outskirts, a hardened Indian farmer stretched out his hand to a visiting farm scientist. "Dr sahib, we will take up your seed," he said. The scientist ...

Dot Media, a marketing company, has partnered with the Robin Hood Army, a volunteer-led organisation dedicated to combating food insecurity, to launch a significant initiative focused on hunger relief ...

Nutrition as a measure of welfare is highly correlated with income, or as Rawls (1971) puts it, is a “primary good” of welfare. The lack of nutritional security leads to “economic deprivation” (Anand ...

With a score of 30.3 in the Global Hunger Index 2019, India’s hunger level falls in the ‘serious’ category. The Global Hunger Index 2019 has ranked India 102 among the 117 countries in which hunger ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of photographs on hunger in India that show villagers posing next to tables full of food has sparked a backlash online and been branded as exploitative ...

To the House of Commons India Secretary Leopold Stennett Amery, redundant master of officialese, declared last week: “There is no famine [in India] and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage.” In ...