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Action Aid praises China but criticises India in its effort towards eradicating hunger
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Friday, 23 October, 2009, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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ActionAid, a research group, has produced the set of rankings in a report released on the occasion of World Food Day. The report evaluated the efforts of developing countries to tackle hunger. In its report it praised Brazil and China, but however criticised India in its attempt to deal with hunger. The report also judges the efforts of developed countries pointing that Luxembourg is trying hardest to end global hunger. Not surprising, the US and New Zealand rank bottom.
The recent UN report has estimated that over one billion people are malnourished globally that is roughly one in seven of the world's population. Among the developing countries, Brazil won the top spot, with the aid agency praising President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's support for land reform and community kitchens for the poor.
China was also praised for cutting the number of hungry by 58 million in 10 years through strong state support for smallholder farmers. However, it has criticised economically liberal India where, it says, 30 million people have been added to the ranks of the hungry since the mid-1990s.
New Zealand, however, is bottom of the rich country list, accused of making particularly harsh cuts in its official aid to agriculture. And the US is second from last, described as "miserly" in its aid to developing world farmers.
- Source BBC News
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