Food and nutritional security in India- An inter zonal analysis Latha M.T.*, Nari Shivanand** *Junior Research Fellow -UGC, Dos in Economics and co-operation, University of Mysore, Mysore **Associate Professor, Economics, Karnataka University, Dharwad Online published on 7 June, 2014. Abstract India has been registered significant economic growth in recent years, the country still existing great efforts amidst of widespread poverty and hunger to sustain the tempo of development. India's poor population amounts to more than 300 million people, with almost 30 percent of India's rural population living in poverty (World Bank 2012). According to government of India official estimates, poverty declined from 37.2% in 2004–05 to 29.8% in 2009–10. Rural poverty declined by 8 percentage points from 41.8% to 33.8% and urban poverty by 4.8 percentage points from 25.7% to 20.9% over the same period (World Bank 2012). India is home to 25 percent of the world's hungry population. An estimated 43 per cent of children under the age of five years are malnourished (WFP 2012). India remains an important global agricultural player; despite the fact that agriculture's share in the country's economy is declining. It has the world's largest area under cultivation for wheat, rice, and cotton, and is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices (World Bank 2012). But still part of the people are suffering from severe anemic and Chronic Energy Deficiency specially women and children. In this background this paper is an attempt to analyze of food consumption and nutritional status of men, women and children across the states. Correlation method is used for analyzing food consumption and anemic status in India. And ANOVA is used for find out the disparities among the regions in nutritional status in India. This work confirms that the East and West region has higher undernutrition rate compare to other regions of the country. And food consumption pattern also influence on anemic status. Top Keywords Anemic, Disparities, Food consumption, Nutrition, Zonal. Top |