With increasing urbanisation, new nutrition challenges for India

Less than 11% of the world was suffering from undernourishment globally

The world has vowed to eliminate poverty and hunger by 2030 as part of 169 sustainable development goals adopted in 2015. Yet, increasing urbanisation is posing new challenges to progress, according to a new report, and India is particularly vulnerable because it faces an additional twin burden of under- and over-nutrition.

The 2017 Global Food Policy Report–released by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)–studied the developments in food policy around the world in 2016 with a “special focus on the challenges and opportunities created by rapid urbanisation, especially in low- and middle-income countries, for food security and