India, among the world’s largest economies, has more than 200 million people going to bed hungry.
It is among the world’s top food producers; yet, it faces a chronic undernourishment crisis with 16% of its population malnourished compared to the global average of 8%. The dominant capitalist discourse enables the treatment of the symptoms of hunger with excess production, while ignoring the deeper causes of that poor diet.
This series, ‘Made Hungry in India’, traces the structural causes of hunger and food insecurity in inequalities in power. It examines the solutions the State is offering to ask what their true meaning for people and the climate.
29/05/2023