Undernourishment means that a person is not able to acquire enough food to meet the daily minimum dietary energy requirements, over a period of one year. FAO defines hunger as being synonymous with chronic undernourishment. Higher economic growth has not been fully translated into higher food consumption.
As a default, higher economic growth and good economic performance means the people who are selling products and services are getting good profits, which has nothing to do with the poor. Such reports are good exclusively to those who have, not to the ones who don't. For instance when the price of gasoline decreases, wall street cries foul and reports a bad news for the economy while on the ground the consumer is paying less and that is what is the poor needed.
Any increment on prices always challenges the poor(but the wealthy praises) while a decrease eases their problems (as they have less or no money). Therefore an economic system that empowers the poor, that takes into account reasonable amounts of profits (to ease pain on consumers) and fair distributions of these profits to employees so that workers will have a financial power is an inclusive and reasonable economic system. In this case people shares enough money to buy foods to get minimally required nutrition for healthy society.
India is home to 194.6 million of the 794.6 million undernourished people in the world, according to the State of Food Insecurity in the World report released on Wednesday.Higher economic growth in India has not translated into higher food consumption, “let alone better diets,” and the poor may have failed to benefit from growth, it said.
http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/RD2m0Dbk0fsWEFeBZdOmSI/India-misses-global-hunger-reduction-targets-report.html
The underlying question is could an economic system based on inherent inequalities between wealth and power allow the conditions for inclusive development...to start, the capabilities approach provides theoreticians and practitioners with a suitable starting point, but the question still remains...
Mismanagement is a key reason of poverty and malnutrition. Corruption is 2nd reason. Deficient welfare activities by the rich and powerful is the 3rd cause. Lack of dedication to duty is the 4th cause. Unethical political activity is the 5th cause. Lack of infrastructure for a state-of-the-art food production, preservation, dissemination and distribution system is the 6th cause. Shortage of food is perhaps the last cause.
Nutrition requirement goes on the age. Initially, starting from the birth, body is ih growing stage till about 18 to 20 years, one need good intake or nutrition. Beyond, growth, for the maintenance, really no nutrition is required. To remove fatigue, one need rest & sound sleep. Nature has made system such, it takes from atmosphere as required.
However, we spoil our habit, by overfeeding and its then, nothing but adiction
I met one person who is in Indian Defence and since his age of about 22 years, he is living with one glass of milk per day. He was 45 years age when I met him, living normal married life and children. Our Rishis are living the same life (without food)
In line with the person above me, inclusive growth doesn't necessarily translate to reduction in malnutrition. While this may increase the spending capabilities of an individual, behavioral changes are paramount. Take for example the nutrition status of an infant. While it's recommended by the WHO that they be exclusively breastfed at least until they're 6 months old, mothers in developing countries often replace that with formula milk as its considered a status symbol. So the overarching conclusion is that the nutrition requirements should be moved from being "unknown needs" to "known needs".
Direct Benefit Transfer in Food Distribution can be a useful mechanism in this direction: delivery and assessment.
Inclusive growth can work through many direct and indirect pathways to reduce under-nutrition. Directly bu increasing income of the included population and indirectly through the improvement in other factors that help in food security, care, and health and sanitation. For analysis of various factors affecting under-nutrition any UNICEF or WHO publication on under-nutrition will help. Also see our Book on the subject - Babu, Gajanan, Sanyal - 2015 - Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis - 2nd Edition, Elsevier / Academic Press.
Evaluation of programmes like ICDS in India has revealed positive results.
Originally the concept was defined as broad based growth, shared growth and pro-poor growth (DFID, 2004, COGD, 2008 and ADB, 2009). Broadly it views as an achievement of these three ideas together. So certainly undernourishment is included in inclusive growth.
If inclusive growth means to include especially the poor in economic improvements and if this really works then the impact is also better access to food. However the problem is that especially in India economic growth has not been inclusive, but very selective, concentrating on urban areas, making the farmers to subsidize industrial development through low food prices, but still too high for the lowest socio-economic sections of India's society.
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