4. Global water crisis:
• Water table reserves are falling in many countries {India}
due to widespread over pumping and irrigation.
Climate Change:
• Rising global temperature are beginning to have a ripple effect
on crop yields, Forest resources, Water supply & altering the
balance of nature.
Land degradation:
• Intensive farming lead to a vicious cycle of exhaustion of
soil fertility and decline of agriculture yield .
Greedy land deals:
• Corporations & Government buying rights to millions of acres
of agriculture land in India to secure their own long term food
supplies.

7. Malnutrition
& Hunger
Physical
Causes
Socio-
Economic and
Historic
Causes
Attitudinal/
Behavioral
Causes
Governance
Related
Causes
•Hunger
•Calorie/
Protein
Micronutrie
nt
Deficit
•Infection
and
Disease
•Poverty/Low
Income
•Illiteracy/Lack
of
Skills
•Gender
Discrimination
embedded in
social
custom
•Lack of
Information
and Awareness
•Gender
Discrimination
•Low Status of
Women
•Negative
Child/Mother
care practices
•Early marriage of
girls
•Early & frequent
pregnancies
•Lack of
Information &
Awareness;
Superstition
•No national
programmed
with specific objective of
reducing malnutrition
•Inadequate, health care
services for women and
children;
•Low access to safe
drinking water and
sanitation
•Programmatic gaps
•Poor coverage
•No action based
Nutrition Monitoring
•Lack of
accountability

8. Protein calorie
micronutrient deficit
Low working
capacity.
Low income
generation.
Poverty
Low birth
rate.
Stunted
Child
Malnourished
Girl
Malnourished
Mother.

11. Around 76% children between
the age of 5-40 months are
Anemic
Among women also, its prevalence has
Increased.
It is 56% among married women And
58% among
Pregnant Women
Among Men it is
25%

12. Multi-Sectoral Solutions
•No single intervention can eradicate
malnutrition.
•The package of interventions must be widely
inter-sectoral so as to address at least a majority
of the causes.
•They must be simultaneous so that the benefit
of one intervention is not lost on account of the
absence of another.

13. •They must cover the entire lifecycle of women and
children to create and immediate impact within one
generation on the nutritional status of the three
critical links of
malnutrition, namely, children, adolescent girls, and
women.
•Only then can the benefits be sustainable
enough to break the inter-generational
cycle, and be passed on the next generation.

19. In what sense does India suffer from
widespread and rising hunger?
In their support, the proponents of the food
security Bill point to the decline in calorie and
protein consumption intake and rise in fat
consumption over the years.

20. According to the NSSO, the per-capita calorie
consumption across all individuals fell from 2,266 to
2,047 between 1972-73 and 2004-05 in rural
India, and from 2,107 to 2,020 in urban India over
the same period. A similar trend has been observed
in protein intake while the reverse trend has
obtained in fat intake.

21. Minister of state for agriculture and food
processing industries Tariq Anwar says
that every year India faces a loss of Rs 50
thousand corer worth of both perishable
and non-perishable food item.

22. Experts estimate that lack of skilled
manpower and shortage of infrastructure
has been resulting in wastage of up to 40
per cent of the total food produce in India
every year.

25. 'Food security legislation to put pressure
on public finances‘
[By PTI | 21 Jul, 2013, 11.44AM IST]
NEW DELHI: Implementation
of food security legislation
will impose pressure on public
finances and push up the
fiscal deficit to 5 per cent of
the Gross Domestic Product
in the current financial year,
said a Ficci report.

26. "...it will impose an additional pressure
on the fiscal situation and
would make fiscal sustainability
plan of the country difficult to achieve.
As a result,
The expected fiscal deficit to GDP ratio
is 5 per cent for
2013-14, which is slightly above t
he budgeted 4.8 per cent," it said.

27. On July 3, the government decided to
promulgate an ordinance to implement the Food
Security Bill to give nation's two-third population
the right to 5 kg of food grain every month at
highly subsidized rates of Rs 1-3 per kg.
The programme when implemented will be
the biggest in the world with the government
spending estimated at Rs 125,000 crore
annually on supply of about 62 million tonnes
of rice, wheat and coarse cereals to 67 per cent
of the population.

28. "A majority of the participating economists anticipated a 50-
75 basis points cut in repo rate by end of this fiscal year," it
said, adding, a fall in repo rate will give elbow room for banks
to reduce deposits as well as lending rates.
Further, it said that depreciating rupee will impact the
widening CAD. For Q1 of FY14, CAD to GDP ratio is projected
at 5 per cent and it may temper in the second half of the
fiscal.
"Financing CAD will be the real challenge this year as global
liquidity will be under pressure," it said adding rupee is
expected to touch 56 by end of March.
High imports strain the Current Account Deficit (CAD), which
hit a record high of 4.8 per cent in the 2012-13 fiscal.

29. Food security scheme
to be launched on August 20
Saturday, July 13, 2013, 16:25
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asked the
states ruled by the party to implement in “letter and spirit” the food
security scheme, which it sees as a “game-changer” in the 2014 Lok
Sabha Elections.
Gandhi held deliberations with Congress chief ministers on how to
implement the food scheme seeking to provide cheap foodgrains to
82 crore people, for which an ordinance was promulgated last week.
Party sources said the chief ministers were told at the meeting to
rollout the scheme in “letter and spirit”.

30. Several states, including Congress-ruled Karnataka and
Uttarakhand, BJP-governed Chhattisgarh, SP-ruled Uttar Pradesh
and JD(U)-run Bihar, could see early roll out of the programme.
Partymen wanted early roll out of the scheme so that the scheme
is well in place by the time Lok Sabha Elections take place.
The Bill has been the pet project of Sonia Gandhi.