Nearly 50 percent of the world's hungry live in India, a low-income, food-deficit country.
Around 35 percent of India's population - 350 million - are considered food-insecure, consuming less than 80 percent of minimum energy requirements.
Nutritional and health indicators are extremely low. Nearly nine out of 10 pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from malnutrition and anaemia.
Anaemia in pregnant women causes 20 percent of infant mortality. More than half of the children under five are moderately or severely malnourished, or suffer from stunting.
WFP Activities
The objectives of WFP's Country Programme in India are to:
Specific beneficiaries include poor women (especially mothers), at-risk children, and poor forest-dependent populations.
This Country Programme has been modified as per Budget revision 905 (see below).
The country programme for India (2008–2012) is consistent with WFP’s Strategic Plan (2006–2009), the priorities of India’s 11th Five Year Plan and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (2008–2012).
It takes into account lessons learned from previous interventions and the recommendations of the mid-term evaluation of the 2003–2007 country programme.
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