The sheer amount of malnutrition-related anemia I saw while at VGKK was frightening, so I'm getting more interested in nutrition and food security issues. This BBC article was pretty interesting, and completely depressing. It's called "Diet of mud and despair in Indian village."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8682558.stm
Besides all the rest of the heartbreaking stuff, note the mention of the changing poverty line. Recently the Indian government decided to use better standards to define the poverty line, and percentage jumped from the mid-20s to a little less than 40%. Apparently even these standards aren't as stringent as international poverty line standards, which would make the number even higher.
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