The number of undernourished people in the world rose by 18 million between 1995-97 and 2000-02, a sharp reversal from the decline of 27 million in the population of the hungry in the previous five years, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The reversal was largely due to China and India performing considerably worse in the second half of the decade than they did in the first half.
The FAO's report, "State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2004", estimates that the number of undernourished people in the world in 2000-02 was 852 million, of which 815 were in the developing world, 28 million in the transition economies and 9 million in the industrialised countries. India alone had 221 million hungry people at the latest count, while China had another 142 million.
Wonder what the creators of 'India Shining' campaign have to say about this?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/953870.cms
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