XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

Co-authors: Gaurav Nair, Nikhil Jindal, Nikita Gulgule, Ronit Ray, Sahil Gupta and Snehal Tiwari,  Group 4, Section A, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch While we go to bed on a full stomach, millions of people around the world sleep hungry every day. 821 million that is one in nine people are not able to have access to sufficient food. Moreover, one in three suffers from malnutrition. Chronic hunger takes the lives of more than three million children every year. Among the survivors, many suffer from impaired cognitive development, stunted physical growth, and a lowered resistance to diseases. Such is the situation even when the world produces enough food to feed over 10 billion people. The disparity in the Global Hunger Index between the developed nations and the rest of the world is alarming. About 47 underdeveloped and developing countries witness disturbing hunger rates. [1][2] Amongst all this, the ray of hope is that this hunger crisis is less severe than what it was two decades ag