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They had a priority ration card, which allotted them 10 kg of subsidised rice per month from the public distribution system; however, this supply came irregularly. Goutam also got the disability pension of rupees 500 ($7) per month. But as these benefits were wholly insufficient, Goutam would beg on the streets daily so they would have enough money to buy food, as Debanti has also some disabilities. A child dies every 10 seconds from poverty and hunger which are responsible for the death of 3.1 million children a year. If food does get wasted, local, low-input farming reduces the number of barrels of oil and climate gasses produced as the food is being grown. There’s nothing about local food that doesn’t help with the waste equation.
While significant levels of food losses occur upstream, at harvest and during post-harvest handling, a lot of food is lost or wasted during the distribution and consumption stages. Some food is also wasted on the shelves and in the warehouses of food businesses either due to excess production, introduction of new products, labeling errors, or due to shorter remaining shelf life. Such food could be saved by timely withdrawing it from the distribution network, aggregating it and then redirecting it to the people in need. Starvation deaths of children in India are not an anomaly in India the notorious Kalahandi region in Orissa to Baran in Rajasthan are cases in focus. Villagers were going without meals, became ill and started to die. It is universal, acknowledged at the national, regional and international level, and applies to every person and group of persons.
And even before these experiments, children at Indian Residential Schools were going hungry — with reports of severe malnutrition and signs of serious vitamin and mineral deficiencies. As a nutrition researcher, and settler-Canadian, I am calling on my peers to recognize and understand the harms that Feeding India NGO malnutrition and nutrition experiments on Indigenous people have caused and the legacy they have left. Experts firmly believe that if we continue to tread the same route, we would have more victims due to the unequal distribution of food. A check on the trade practices of private traders is imperative.
We are also to working to provide life-saving medical support, food and psychosocial support for children. The government, on many levels, has been inefficient in improving the issue.Politics have hindered progress through a lack of effective programs. Inadequate funding has resulted in significant hurdles to solve the issue, and India’s political system must be mended before any real progress can be made toward addressing hunger issues.
Many were already suffering from malnutrition because of destructive government policies and terrible conditions at residential schools. The food crisis of 2008 had led several developing countries to face food riots. Whether or not will we be able to avert the country's food crisis hangs in front of the political parties in power. In an interview, local activist Ajit Panda said that he had approached the state administration to provide the brother and sister with an Antodaya card, which fetches 35 kg of subsidised rice per month.