Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: PIB Context: The Prime Minister inaugurated the second edition of the ‘World Food India 2023’ event recently. The event aimed to showcase India as the ‘food basket of the world’ and celebrate 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Key growth pillars of FPI: Empowering small farmers through …
GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Government Policies and Interventions Source: WFP: HungerMap Context: The World Food Programme has released “HungerMap LIVE: Global insights and key trends”. What is HungerMap LIVE? HungerMap LIVE is a real-time monitoring system tracking key indicators of acute hunger, including household food consumption, livelihoods, child nutritional status, mortality, and access …
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GS2/GS3 Paper Syllabus: Government Policies and Interventions/ Human Resources Source: TH Context: The article discusses the issue of hunger and malnutrition in India and the need for a more localized assessment of this problem. What is Hunger? As per FAO, hunger is the condition characterized by habitual or chronic consumption of too …
GS Paper 2 Syllabus: Social Justice Source: IE Context: The author Ashok Gulati discusses that the key to addressing India’s hunger challenge lies in focusing on gender-sensitive growth. Status of India on Hunger: The Global Hunger Index 2022 ranks India 107 (out of 121 countries), and the level of hunger and undernutrition in the …
GS Paper 3: Syllabus: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment. Source: Indian Express Context: Under the faceless tax regime, information about high-value transactions of taxpayers is received by the tax department which is then used to issue notices under section 148 of the IT Act. Recently, …
GS Paper 2: syllabus: Issues related to health. Source: Indian Express Direction: We already covered this topic in detail last week (as well as click here ). Here we are only including unique points. Context: This is an editorial article which discusses the flaws in the methodology of ranking used in GHI 2022 …
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16. Despite various interventions to tackle hunger in the country, the issue continues to be persistent sore in the nation’s food security, undermining its developmental goals. Comment. (250 words, 15 marks)
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Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger. 4. Despite various interventions to tackle hunger in the country, the issue continues to be persistent sore in the nation’s food security, undermining its developmental goals. Comment. (250 words) Difficulty level: Moderate Reference: IndianExpress Why the question: The Right to Food Campaign and associated organisations had conducted …
Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger. 4. What is Biofortification? Examine the potential of Biofortification with respect to India’s push towards achieving targets of Sustainable Development Goal-2 (SDG-2). (250 words) Difficulty level: Tricky Reference: Indian Express Why the question: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation as he emphasised the need to ensure “poshan” …
