Roadmap for a hunger-free India

  • 21/12/2002

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)

An ambitious roadmap has been drawn up by the Chennai-based MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) here for achieving the goal of a hunger-free India by August 15, 2007, which marks the 60th anniversary of India's independence. The roadmap, prepared in association with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), deals with methods of overcoming poverty-induced endemic hunger (mostly under-nutrition), micro-nutrient deficiencies and transient hunger resulting from drought, floods and cyclones.