Nutrition Security
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| (The UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report for 2017 has important pointers to achieve nutrition policy reform) |
Ø Topic :- Issues relating to poverty and hunger
· News – Nutrition Security.
· Content :-
Ø UN releases Food Security and Nutrition Report – 2017. At the global level, five agencies make the assessment.
Ø As per the report, Food Security and better nutrition since the turn of the century may be at risk.
Ø Reduction in the state of undernourishment since the year 2000. But the last report on poor and hungry population registering a worrying increase in 2016.
Ø Rising from 777 million in 2015 to 815 million in 2016.
Ø Possible reasons :
· Violent Conflicts in 18 countries.
· Fall commodity export revenues.
· Drought in south Asian and south African countries.
· Disasters (3 major Hurricanes affecting US and Caribbean countries losses $300 bn in 2017).
· Impact of the economic downturn.
Ø Report says, one in four children is still affected by stunting.
· These are averages and do not reflect the disparities among regions, within countries and between States.
Ø They represent a setback to all countries trying to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SPGs) by 2030.
Ø India Specific :
· National Food Security Act.
· Special Nutrition schemes for women and children.
· In spite of such interventions, 14.5% of the population suffers from undernourishment, going by the UN’s assessment for 2014-16.
· At the national level, 53% of women are anaemic, Health Ministry data show.
· All this shows that the Centre and State governments are woefully short on the commitment to end undernourishment.
· NITI Aayog found that families below the poverty line consumed more cereals and less milk compared to the affluent.
· Complementing rice and wheat with more nutritious food items should be the goal.
Ø Other related news :
· As per report, 9 out of 10 people living in urban areas around the world are breathing polluted air.
· UN announces on world refugee day (20th June) that, today 68 million (6.8 crores) people around the world are refugees – mostly from South Sudan, Congo and Myanmar.
· US poised to exit from UN’s main Human Rights Body.
Ø Question – Find the difference between MDGs and SDGs. How many SDGs are there?
· MDGs and SDGs both are UN’s initiatives to remove poverty and hunger from the world.
1. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been launched in 2000 and ended in 2015. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been launched in 2015 and will be ended in 2030.
2. Goals: MDGs-> “halfway” -> encouraged countries to do the easiest part. SDGs-> “Zero”-> focus on the empowering the poorest and hardest to reach.
3. Universal Goals: MDGs-> rich donors aiding poor recipients ->mainly for middle-income countries. SDGs-> set of goals applicable to every country.
4. Distinguishing hunger and poverty: MDGs-> Hunger and Poverty lumped together means if solving one would solve another. SDGs-> Both treated differently.
5. Funding: MDGs-> Funded by aid flows. SDGs-> by improving country’s own revenue generating capabilities.
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