Abstract: The recent Global Hunger Report 2018 has categorised India with ‘serious’ hunger levels. Among children, underfive malnutrition status is indeed poor when compared to global or even South East Asian SDG regions. In fact in some districts of India the prevalence of malnutrition is as high as many African countries.
The authors are Assistant professor and Associate Professor at Department of Geography, NCERT, Odisha and Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi respectively. rabiulansary.ansary786@gmail.com The article should be cited as Mapping malnutrition amongst children in India, Geography and You, 19 (14): 24-30.
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