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dc.contributor.authorMishra, Khushbu
dc.contributor.authorRampal, Jeevant
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-11T11:36:48Z
dc.date.available2021-10-11T11:36:48Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-15
dc.identifier.citationMishra, K., & Rampal, J. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: A viewpoint on India. World Development, 135, 105068.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105068
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11718/24345
dc.description.abstractIn this article, we present our viewpoint on COVID-19 pandemic and one of the humanitarian challenges it will likely pose: food insecurity. We begin our article by presenting the status of hunger and food insecurity around the world, followed by that in lower and middle income countries, and in India. Then we discuss the COVID-19 lockdown and India’s current economic status, followed by India’s ranking in the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) as well as hunger-related facts on Indian women and children. Then after, we discuss the damages to lives caused by COVID-19 and hunger with implications for food insecurity, nutritional status, productivity, education, and wage earnings (based on literature). More importantly, we discuss various complimentary steps to preventing COVID-19 related deaths with steps to preventing deaths related to food insecurity and hunger for the immediate, medium, and long terms. Finally, we provide a concluding paragraph highlighting the need for the Indian government to carefully combine governmental and non-governmental interventions, in reducing India’s food insecurity and hunger rates despite the COVID-19 related slowdown.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWorld Development
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectFood Insecurityen_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.titleThe COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: a viewpoint on Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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