Ensuring nutrition security

Food safety programmes need adjustments

A significant takeaway from the United Nations report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition 2022 is that while the world is moving backwards in its bid to banish hunger, India is among the few lower- and middle-income countries that are bucking this trend. While, globally, the count of undernourished people swelled by nearly 46 million over the past 15 years, it has shrunk in India by nearly 23.5 million, though the scale of malnutrition still remains worrisome. There is no longer any doubt that the prime Sustainable Development Goal of eliminating hunger by 2030 is bound to remain