Consequences of High Population

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India home to a quarter of the world's hungry: Global Hunger Index report

India home to a quarter of the world's hungry: Global Hunger Index report - The Times of India

In a striking irony, the number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 by the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on Monday even as world cereal production was estimated at a near record level of 2,489 million metric tons a few days ago. About a quarter of the world's hungry, or 210 million, are in India alone.

The number of hungry people appears to have declined slightly from the 870 million estimated in 2010-12, but the current GHI report says that this is due to a recalculation of how undernourishment is measured by the UN-linked Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Since 2006, the absolute number of undernourished people has remained unchanged but their proportion to total world population is declining because the world population is growing.

The 2013 GHI is calculated for 120 countries for which data on its three component indicators are available and where measuring hunger is considered most relevant. The three indicators used are: the proportion of people who are undernourished, the proportion of children under five who are underweight, and the mortality (death) rate of children younger than age five. The report has been brought out by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and two international charities Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide.

Where is India in all this? The 2013 GHI says that in India the proportion of undernourished declined from about 21% of the population to 17.5%, the proportion of underweight children declined from 43.5% to about 40% and under-five mortality declined from 7.5% to about 6%. All this put together means that the hunger index for India declined from 24 to 21 between 2003-07 and 2008-12. The proportion of underweight children is an estimate done by IFPRI as the last survey was done in 2004-05.

In other words, the proportions and the index for India are at best an approximation. Other surveys done more recently have shown trends that indicate that the nutritive value of food consumed per person is dipping. A recent survey of consumer expenditure said that nutritional intake measured in terms of calories declined from 2,153 kilocalories (Kcal) per person per day in 1993-94 to 2,020 in 2009-10 in rural areas and from 2,071 to 1,946 Kcal in urban areas. These shocking results are according to a report of the 66th round of survey done by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). Even between 2004-05 and 2009-10, the calorie intake per person per day dipped from 2,047 to 2,020 in rural areas and from 2,020 to 1,946 in urban areas.
Despite these caveats regarding the GHI data, India still continues in the "Alarming" category of countries classified by severity of hunger. That puts it in the category where the hunger index is between 20 and 29.9. Others in this category are Ethiopia, Sudan, Congo, Chad, Niger, and other African countries. These are places ravaged by resource wars and extreme poverty, and they make up the bottom most bunch in the Human Development Index rankings. Meanwhile, an October report on food prospects issued by FAO forecast a record cereal harvest for 2013 powered by a 7% increase in production over 2012. Wheat output is estimated at 705 million metric tons (MMT), a record. Coarse grains output is put at 1,288 MMT, another record. And rice output is estimated at 496 MMT, yet another record. Wheat prices have declined in international markets by 16% over last year, rice prices are down 23% and maize prices by 35%, according to FAO's price monitor in October quoting prices for September 2013. With huge production and declining prices worldwide, why the world's hungry are not getting enough food is a conundrum that policy makers and experts are groping to answer.

India is still a Shiit as it has no control on the religious shiits

looks a good news for india, in fact :ranger:

out of 1.25 billion population, hardly 210million in this list? while we have many news that half of the population of india is either poor or in a bit better state only....

india has to reduce its population to 700million, twice to its population at the time of freedom in 1947, no more than . this additional 600million are the only reason for this type of news we read on time to time...

this 600million people are not only the shiits but also a burder on the Indian economy, which Indian Middle Class bear by heavy subcidies to them, while there are many shameless minority communities of India who just fcuk and throw their hungry kids on the streets of India for the subcidy/tax money of indian middle class, which is still not enough, and still we have this type of news for India

religious politics of India, to appease minorities by either means, is the main reason behind this type of news, who never let any 'forceful' population control technique to come in application, similar to Chinese One Child Policy. and these shiits of indian minorities first eat subcidies/tax money of Indian Middle Class and at the same time insult the whole nation on the world platform this way too


=> Population of Hindus was 88% at the time of freedom while its now 80%, then why dont we have any way to first bring down populaion of the minorities to the 'ratio' it had at the time of freedom in 1947, at 12.5% of total population, when Indian population was hardly 347million? why Indian Hindus wants shiits on the streets, just because the minorities there may do this?????

 

[hello_10]

India home to a quarter of the world's hungry: Global Hunger Index report.

You have not realised that they have a plan to cut down poverty and hunger in Pakistan. Sheer Patriotism is what is driving them!

Their God has decreed so and that is why you think it is all about religion!

sir, India Middle Class spend a very big amount to feed its poor, which is measured at around 100 times in many areas, like in agriculture which is the main source of food, as below.......

there is a limit to feed the people for nothing, and before people may start "eating" each others, we have to reduce its population. pakistan can't certainly compare itself with india on the side of feeding people for nothing :thumb:

"As per statistics, India provides around Rs855 billion subsidy to its farmers to reduce their production cost, whereas Pakistan hardly spends Rs8 billion in this regard. India's agriculture production cost was around two to three times lower than Pakistan due to these subsidies," agriculture expert and Agri Forum Pakistan chairman, Ibrahim Mughal said. - See more at: MFN status to ruin agriculture, industry alike | Agriculture Corner

MFN status to ruin agriculture, industry alike | Agriculture Corner

 

[hello_10]

now India may have as many population as it want, and feed them for nothing

=> At Rs 1,25,000 cr, Food Security Bill largest in world: Implementation a challenge, says Morgan Stanley - Economic Times


this woman Sonia was always proved to be an enemy of India. even if Sonia might be married to a very liberal Muslim like Mr Imran Khan, she might be known as Jamina Khan, or something like this name. and even if Rajiv Gandhi was a typical hindu, he was the man who first opened Ram tample in Ayodhya by late 80s, he never forced Sonia to convert into Hindu. and now this Western Christian woman is digging grave of Indian Hindus with whatever she can do

 

[ramakrishna]

now India may have as many population as it want, and feed them for nothing

=> At Rs 1,25,000 cr, Food Security Bill largest in world: Implementation a challenge, says Morgan Stanley - Economic Times




this woman Sonia was always proved to be an enemy of India. even if Sonia might be married to a very liberal Muslim like Mr Imran Khan, she might be known as Jamina Khan, or something like this name. and even if Rajiv Gandhi was a typical hindu, he was the man who first opened Ram tample in Ayodhya by late 80s, he never forced Sonia to convert into Hindu. and now this Western Christian woman is digging grave of Indian Hindus with whatever she can do

The surname Gandhi is blinding many of the Indians who are casting their vote to congress .... God saves India ....

P.S Food security bill is a election gimmick to get back to the power in 2014 general election .. it is a move which UPA thinks will help their supremo kid Rahul Gandhi the Genius get to the PM throne ...

 

[hello_10]

The surname Gandhi is blinding many of the Indians who are casting their vote to congress .... God saves India ....

this is the title which 'proves' that she was wife of grandson of Father of Nation of India, Mahatman Gandhi. her title only means to represent her marital state, not the religion. she was never asked for changing her religion by her family, neither this question was ever raised by the political parties too, and now we are facing its consequences

she never had to have this title also but this is the title why people vote for Congress, the party of Mr M.K.Gandhi. while Rajiv was a true follower of his grand father. while opening Ram Tample in Ayodhaya by late 80s, he in fact fulfilled the last wish of his grand father, in fact, after over 35 years of death of Mahatama Gandhi, whose even Samadhi as below tells us, what exactly he stood for, his strong belief in Lord Ram. and his last wish in common public, "Hey Ram", which was finally fulilled by his grandhson :thumb:

India was always a non-religious country with hindu majority, as Mr Gandhi never let india become a religious country, similar to Pakistan or Bangladesh. India may proud to say that it had many minority PMs/ presidents/ generals/ chief justice/ sports captain/ bollywood super stars who were non-hindu. as India is not the country where there is any favor by laws for any top position, while concerning the religious background of a person . if you may qualify the exams, you may achieve the highest position in India, regardless your religious/ racial/ language etc background, and this type of Democracy is almost impossible to find anywhere else in world. but so liberal society of india is now its weakness, as its now finding hard to handle many key issues, like very high population, which may result in its destruction.

 

[Dinesh_Kumar]

One good thing abt High Population is large no. of users in DFI, which is free and open to all, and no high class and snooty entry barrier like BRF (paid e-mail ! Dudes, this is 21st Century, we will soon migrate to free internet and cheap satellite launches !!) . I like it.

 

[hello_10]

another country to study of high population is pakistan

uncontrolable growth of paki polulation rises to 18 crore. out of that 50% are poor and illiterate. they will become terrorist one day

I was thinking population is an asset if handled properly

it is a burden only if we screw up the handling of population

To a certain limit. India would have been just fine if we had 700 million people.

^^ What about resources ?
Where would you get resources from?. What would happen if India starts consuming like the US. ?
The world would be screwed, if India and China starts consuming like the US.

Remember, India is by no measure a resource rich country, except maybe coal.

try going the other way - try restricting the pop growth and then end up as countries like france, belgium, britain ,new zealand , even australia , the list goes on and on, singapore ( where the very EXISTENCE of the "country" is now at stake ) - countries which implemented the "west's" ideas about Malthusian population controls via "family planning "where they are now frantically inviting foreigners in and experimenting with one crazy thing after another to ATTEMPT to increase their pop

- it's never gonna be perfect , we will ALWAYS be on one side or the other of perfection and i think india was correct in ignoring the "west's" calls for "family Planning" in the 1960s - it is far , far better to err on the side of overpopulation than the other way

it's not an easy solution , but it is far and away the better of the only two options that are available to us

a perfect population size is NOT a policy option - it might be achieved but never SUSTAINED !

the depleted west in trying to get us to join them in their grave error

India's response should be ....;-

NO THANKS !

We will see high population (and young at that) countries get rich to a certain extent and then slowly "colonize" the erstwhile super power and colonial powers. It with very old population. We are already seeing that. Say a country like Britain will be completely dominated by Indians a few decades from now. What happened 400 years ago will be reversed.

in fact, a proper punishment for India is being discussed on the table too, if its deny to take proper administrative steps to reduce its Over Population, which has caused serious impact on the world as whole, not only on the resource consumption side but also on the increased pollution due to higher energy consumption recorded in India since 1947 too. and Climate Change tax on every "non-first" kid is already on consideration :thumb:

 

[roma]

in fact, a proper punishment for India is being discussed on the table too, if its deny to take proper administrative steps to reduce its Over Population, which has caused serious impact on the world as whole, not only on the resource consumption side but also on the increased pollution due to higher energy consumption recorded in India since 1947 too. and Climate Change tax on every "non-first" kid is already on consideration :thumb:

it might be a bit unfair for me to take the line
that i live in europe and i can see it for myself

really their kids at uni are no brighter than ours
perhaps less, because they dont have quite as much motivation
as ours - as they think they have other alternatives
if they dont do well at uni and college

the western countries will have little choice but
to reply on china and india, south america
for growth markets
how can they at the same time penalise us ?
they might try, but if we have good gov,
it wont get them anywhere

the future of the WORLD is in the hand sof
societies like china's and india's , south america's
of course the usa and Europe will still be there
but they wont have that advantage they have at this time

 

[hello_10]

the future of the WORLD is in the hands of societies like china's and india's , south america's
of course the usa and Europe will still be there but they wont have that advantage they have at this time

What India, China, other emerging economies will do with this World, we have yet to see

and thats why we are worried for future, more than before

higher population is going to put bigger burden on the whole world as whole, in terms of paying higher prices for resources/ food, along with higher pollution due to more energy consumption, causing bigger Climate Change threats. in fact, its good until these over populated countries were poor, especially India, but since their growing Middle Class are gaining capabilities to demand more, we are now worried for our future more now. as, they are just concerned with their own country, not for the world as whole.....

until US/West have a control on this world, this world is moving somehow/ someway. even if we claim for descriminations from western nations, but still they have kept this world safe enough to date. but what exactly India, China and other emerging economies will do with this planet, we have yet to see . and taking proper steps to reduce population to 700 million by 2050, say, (twice to that of 1947), is the very first step by the Indian government to prove that they are responsible enough to gain power/ prosperity

 

[CrYsIs]

and taking proper steps to reduce population to 700 million by 2050, say, (twice to that of 1947), is the very first step by the Indian government to prove that they are responsible enough to gain power/ prosperity [/COLOR]

Are you out of your mind?????

How will India reduce population from current 1.2 billion to 700 million in 40 years ?

Last time i checked India's population is projected to be growing atleast till 2050 after which it will start declining.

 

[Mad Indian]

in fact, a proper punishment for India is being discussed on the table too, if its deny to take proper administrative steps to reduce its Over Population, which has caused serious impact on the world as whole, not only on the resource consumption side but also on the increased pollution due to higher energy consumption recorded in India since 1947 too. and Climate Change tax on every "non-first" kid is already on consideration :thumb:

Seriously dude? WTF? Why stop at environment tax alone? Lets add "piss tax", "Air tax" and "crap tax" too.Because the 30% income tax+ service tax+ vat and other such shit are not enough