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Question 1

What is one of the Sustainable Development Goals set to be realized by 2030?

Answer 1

Ending hunger, food insecurity and any form of malnutrition

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Question 2

What is a manifestation of a lack of access to and the unaffordability of healthy diets?

Answer 2

Food insecurity and malnutrition

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Question 3

What is a pre-requisite to address hunger?

Answer 3

Food sufficiency

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Question 4

What is the global magnitude of undernourished people as of 2023?

Answer 4

757 million

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Question 5

Where is the largest magnitude of hungry people located?

Answer 5

Asia

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Question 6

What is the projected trend for the location of half of the world’s hungry/undernourished by 2030?

Answer 6

Africa

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Question 7

What does food insecurity result in?

Answer 7

Undernourishment or manifestation of hunger

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Question 8

What is the significance of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoHD)?

Answer 8

It assumes significance in the lack of purchasing capacity for adequate food

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Question 9

What is the focus of the examination of the Indian scene in terms of food affordability?

Answer 9

Thalinomics that contemplates rising affordability for a nutritionally compliant meal for every Indian

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Question 10

What is a wake-up call for the lack of improvement in food security and uneven progress in economic access to healthy diets?

Answer 10

The share of the rural Indian population unable to afford the cost of a required diet (CoRD)

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Question 11

What is the cause for the poor quality of diets in India?

Answer 11

Acceptability

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Question 12

What is the imbalance in composition of diets in India in relation to reference diets?

Answer 12

Unhealthy diets and a lack of improvement in food security and uneven progress in economic access to healthy diets

Source: Unhealthy diets in India

Question 13

What are the major causes for the poor quality of diets in India?

Answer 13

Unhealthy diets in India are generally unhealthy and there is an imbalance in composition. Lack of affordability and acceptability are the major causes for the poor quality of diets.

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Question 14

What is the reference for a healthy diet in India?

Answer 14

The EAT-Lancet reference or the recommendations by the Indian Council of Medical Research are considered as reference diets for a healthy diet in India.

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Question 15

What is the Global Hunger Index (GHI) focused on?

Answer 15

The GHI focuses more on nutrition and early age mortality rather than hunger per se. It goes beyond food insecurity and nutritional compliance to the basics of having a square meal a day.

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Question 16

What is the theme of World Food Day this year?

Answer 16

The theme of World Food Day this year is ‘Right to foods for a better life and a better future’, highlighting the significance of a hunger-free world with the universal right to food.

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Question 17

What is the ideal alternative to ensure no one is left hungry?

Answer 17

Providing free food by setting up food banks that evolve as a way to avoid food waste may be an ideal alternative to ensure no one is left hungry.

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Question 18

What should food-sufficient regions do to ensure a hunger-free world?

Answer 18

Food-sufficient regions should ensure redistribution in a humanitarian manner so that the food-deficient ones are not left out, qualifying as a hunger-free nation.

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