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[Michel Bauwens]

very ominous trends ... see our recent wiki and blog entries on the food and
land commons for some extra background

(available via http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Commons)

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Subject: In every one of India's major states, less food is available for
growing populations (Rahul Goswam

The hunger index

By Rahul Goswami

In every one of India's major states, less food is available for growing
populations. The first India States Hunger Index shows alarming falls in per
capita availability of cereals. Industrialised Gujarat ranks lower than
Haiti on the Global Hunger Index, and Madhya Pradesh beats Ethiopia by only
0.07 points

In October 2008, the India States Hunger Index was released by the
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and its partner
organisations in the Global Hunger Index 2008 project. For the first time,
India's states had been disaggregated from the national index. The States
Hunger Index (see Table 2) shows us how hunger persists as a widespread and
serious issue in India, and shows us also that economic strength,
urbanisation and industrial development have not helped remove or even
alleviate hunger in states that are financially powerful.

This analysis shows how the states named and ranked in the Hunger Index have
been unable to better the per capita foodgrain availability of the
early-1980s, and points to some of the reasons why this has occurred in
India's major states.

In Gujarat, whose government promotes the state as the most
investor-friendly in India, only 27.5 kg of coarse cereals per person per
year were available from Gujarat's own harvest in 2006-07. For the period
2000-01 to 2006-07, the average per capita availability of coarse cereals
per year was 35.7 kg. Compare that with the average 56 kg of coarse cereals
per capita available for the decade of the 1980s (1980-81 to 1989-90). Rural
Gujaratis also had more per capita pulses available in the 1980s than in the
first half of the current decade.

In Maharashtra, the state that has absorbed the most foreign direct
investment in India and which contributes the largest portion of national
gross domestic product, the difference between the 1980s and the present
decade is just as startling. The average per capita availability of coarse
cereals in the 1980-81 to 1989-90 period was 84.8 kg. For the seven years of
this decade (2000-01 to 2006-07), that average per capita availability of
coarse cereals from Maharashtra's own harvests has plunged to 56.7 kg. In
1983-84, there were 163 kg of foodgrain available per person per year in
Maharashtra. In 2005-06, that figure was down to 117 kg.

In Tamil Nadu, where rice has been a political commodity and an election
issue, there is less of it available for those who need it most. The average
per capita availability of rice, from the state's own harvests, in the
1980-81 to 1989-90 period was 98.6 kg. This has dropped to an average of
84.6 kg for the 2000-01 to 2006-07 period (see Table 1). Andhra Pradesh is
the only major state ranked in the IFPRI States Hunger Index whose people
have not seen a similar decline in availability of total foodgrain between
the 1980s and this decade.

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