India’s Challenges of Nutritional Security

Nutrition security = Food security + all essential nutrients with sufficient quality to all the population in all the years.

India’s Status of Nutrition Security

There are 19.5 crore undernourished people in India out of which 47 million children or 40 % are child population; not meeting human potential and facing problems such as:

• Stunting,
• Diminishing learning consequences,
• Poor academic performance,
• Poor immune system,
• Reduced earnings performance,
• Overweight or obesity in the child population,
• It also increases the communicable diseases, etc.

Challenges

We have obtained food sufficiency in food production but new problems in food production are emerged such as:

• Climate change is reducing the farm productivity.
• Slowing ....