GIS Study for Malnutrition and Agro Biodiversity in Maharashtra State, India

Malnutrition is found to be a leading killer throughout the world, with undernutrition in the developing world the main nutrition problem. India is one of the fastest growing country in terms of population and economic growth rate , sitting at a population of near about 1200 million (December 2010) and economy growing by 9% GDP growth rate from 2008-2010. Since independence Indian economy considered as low income country with majority of population at or below the poverty line which is lead to problems of malnutrition, hunger etc. (Rieff, 2011).the combination of people leaving in poverty and the recent economic growth of India (as well as Maharashtra) has led to the co-emergence of two type of malnutrition: Under nutrition and Over nutrition. These papers present the bio fortification for agro biodiversity to reduce the malnutrition in rural & urban areas.