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National Policy makers and development practitioners who are the very important person for developing investment strategies to promote economic growth find many challenges in the changing face of agriculture in the twenty first century. In addition to its essential role in food security, agricultural development is now seen as a vital and high impact source of poverty reduction. This article highlights the food consumption and malnutrition issues in a brief manner. One child dies every five second from hunger-related causes. Further the report evidenced that number of undernourished people has increased for every year. During the year 1995–1997 and 2000–2002 are 194.7 and 213.7 million respectively. The rapid increasing of hunger and undernourished people are due to government negligence of providing proper social security provision for the poor people and it fail to identify the real poverty people by measuring unique methodology. Further it highlights the farmer suicide related issues. At least 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, according to data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This is an increase of 1,172 over the 2008 count of 16,196. It brings the total farm suicides since 1997 to 2,16,500. The paper concludes that globally there is enough food for all and mismanagement is the main problem for food insecurity.