Despite a nearly 20-year period of strong economic growth since the early 1990s, as well as the recent emergence of exportable surpluses of food staples—wheat and rice—India continues to account for the largest share of world population considered to be food insecure. Food security is defined as allowing individuals to reach a nutritional target of 2,100 calories per capita per day. USDA’s International Food Security Assessment estimates India’s food-insecure population at 255 million, or about 36.1 percent of the 707 million food-insecure people among the 76 low-income countries studied. Also the government of India has similar estimates: 355 million indians, or 29.8 percent of the population, lived in poverty in 2009/10.
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