REPORT ON THE STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY IN URBAN INDIA

FROM : THE HINDU
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Poverty norm or calorie norm?

SWARNA S. VEPA

Kerala and Tamil Nadu with the lowest calorie consumption seem to show better health outcome indicators

REPORT ON THE STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY IN URBAN INDIA: MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Chennai-600113.

This report, a joint initiative by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation — an institution with a remarkable long term commitment to issues related to food security — and the United Nations World Food Programme, should serve as an excellent hand book on urban food insecurity. Aside from providing all the relevant information in a consolidated fashion — something that is hard to come by in these days of information overload — it highlights the issues that are of critical importance. If its recommendations are meant for policymakers and those charged with the responsibility of formulating action-oriented programmes, the publication is no less useful for researchers in the field.

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