2.1.1 Prevalence of Undernourishment

Definition
Undernourishment is defined as the condition by which a person has access, on a regular basis, to amounts of food that are insufficient to provide the energy required for conducting a normal, healthy and active life, given his or her own dietary energy requirements.

Rice Impacts
Rice is the daily staple for more than 3.5 billion people worldwide, accounting for 19% of dietary energy globally.

Out of the 815 million people who are undernourished, almost 60% of them live in rice-dependent geographies where rice consumption represents more than 40% of their annual cereals diet. Asia and Africa have the highest dependency on rice, and also the most undernourished populations.

Global demand for rice is projected to grow 25% between 2010 and 2030. Rice prices could increase by 30% by 2050, exacerbating ability of poor and vulnerable populations to access sufficient food (rice) for dietary energy requirements.

Overlaps with the SRP Instruments
The SRP vision is to feed the world sustainably. The SRP Standard and Performance Indicators encourage practices and measure impacts of rice cultivation practices in numerous areas linked to undernourishment. It is assumed that applying the SRP Standard can result in increased net income (which leads to increased household capacity to pay for food), increased productivity (which leads to increased household food security, an increase in marketable surplus and increased national and international food security), and safer and more nutritious rice for consumers.
 * SRP Standard for Sustainable Rice Cultivation
 * All requirements
 * SRP Performance Indicators
 * 1: Profitability
 * 3: Productivity: Grain Yield
 * 9: Food Safety