|
India faces climate change, hunger risks:
Report
Monday October 10, 2011 08:59:37 PM,
IANS
|
|
New Delhi:
India has been placed seventh in the list of 21 developing
countries for its vulnerability in being able to feed its people
and grow food, according to a study released Monday.
India is ranked ahead of Pakistan and Nigeria in the report titled
'On the brink: Who's best prepared for a climate and hunger
crisis?' by NGO ActionAid.
It says the world today confronts three interlocking crises --
climate change, resource scarcity and food price volatility.
"With one-quarter of the world's people living in hunger residing
within its borders, any improvements to India's hunger levels
could dramatically reduce global poverty and hunger. India is home
to one-third of the world's undernourished children," stresses
Sandeep Chachra, executive director of ActionAid India.
ActionAid's research shows that 1.6 billion people -- nearly a
quarter of the world's population -- live in countries that are
highly vulnerable to climate-related food crises.
"They have very high underlying levels of chronic hunger and child
malnutrition. This, coupled with rapid land degradation, will make
food production increasingly difficult as global warming
intensifies. Only a few of these countries are putting adequate
measures in place to assure future food security," the report
said.
Chachra added: "India needs to address the unfinished agenda of
land reforms and support to diverse sustainable agricultural
systems and improving women's access and control over land and
other productive resources is key to arresting hunger and impact
of climate change on agriculture."
|
|
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
Telangana protestors attack Hyderabad
college
Tension
prevailed at a private college in Hyderabad as Telangana activists
attacked it demanding its closure while the parents of students
staged a protest asking the management »
Telangana: Congress steps up consultations;
says no to president's rule
No PM
assurance in hand TRS decides to intensify Telangana
agitation
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
 Sonia to take up poverty issue amid government flip-flop
Taking note of government flip-flop
over where to benchmark the economic criteria of poverty, the
Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory
»
|
|
Transparency promised in full 'spectrum' of
new telecom policy
The government unveiled a draft of its new telecom policy here
Monday that focuses on free roaming, transparent allocation of
airwaves, strategies to increase rural reach, higher broadband
speeds and more funding options for operators. The draft policy,
which was uploaded on the
»
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
 Ghazal
singer Jagjit Singh passes away
Renowned
singer Jagjit Singh, known as much for his ghazals and bhajans as
for his work in Hindi cinema, died here Monday after a brain
haemorrhage. He was 70. Singh, who breathed his last at 8 a.m.,
was admitted »
|
|
Indian
language literature goes to Frankfurt Book Fair
In a first showcase of Indian
indigenous writing, a literary panorama featuring works by over 30
language writers will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair in
a pilot exhibition for readers and publishers from
»
|
|
Two Americans share Nobel Prize for Economics
The Nobel Prize for Economics will be shared by Christopher A.
Sims and Thomas J. Sargent of the US "for their empirical research
on cause and effect on the macroeconomic", it was announced here
Monday
»
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
Girl students of a local school
displaying the post cards posted to the AMU VC appealing him
to speed up the process for the establishment of AMU centre in
Malegaon
(Photo:
ummid.com) |
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links