Measuring the Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Target States of India

The United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (UN SCN) declares that hunger poses the gravest single threat to the world’s public health . It is estimated that every five seconds, a child under 10 dies from hunger and malnutrition-related diseases” 2 . The number of people suffering from hunger has increased every year since 1996: according to Jean Ziegler, former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. At the November 2009 World Summit on Food Security, UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon stated, “more than 1 billion people are hungry; six million children die of hunger every year, an estimated 17,000 every day”.