CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Muskan Anand. Option [C] USA : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken chaired the high-level Ministerial meeting on ‘Global Food Security-Call to Action’ in New York. India’s Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan expressed concern over global food insecurity in the meeting.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to UNO -India, there are nearly 195 million undernourished people in India, which is a quarter of the world’s hunger burden. Also, roughly 43% of children in India are chronically undernourished. India ranks 68 out of 113 major countries in terms of food security index 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -The right to adequate food is a universal human right that is realized when all people have physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or the means for its procurement, without discrimination of any kind.

Detailed explanation-4: -Food security is ensured in India on the basis of the two components, i.e., Buffer Stock and Public Distribution System (PDS). Buffer Stock. It is the stock of food grains like wheat and rice procured by the government through Food Corporation of India (FCI).