Crisis of Food Security in India: Themes and Issues (original) (raw)

Food Security: Challenges and Issues in India

Tij S Research Journal of Economics Business Studies Rjebs, 2011

Food security in India has to be understood as a distress phenomenon, as with marginal increase in their incomes over time they are forced to cut down on their food consumption to meet other pressing demands of health and education that were not considered important in the past. High economic growth rates have failed to improve food security in India leaving the country facing a crisis in its rural economy. If food security is a complex objective, pursued with others (shelter, safety, health, self-esteem), in a world where individual households face diverse, complex and different livelihood opportunities, what role can policy possibly play? Can governments ever know enough to act? This paper is focused on the several foods security issues prevalent in the Indian scenario. Data are taken from relevant sources to analyse the gravity of the food security issues in India. It also covered the several development programmes taken up by the Indian government to counter various food security issues including several schemes and yojanas.

Food Security in India: Problems and Challenges

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology -IJRASET, 2020

The World Food Conference1974 resolved that the food security ensures adequate provides and convenience. Food security has become a major issue across the globe preponderantly in developing countries like Republic of India. during a report of International Food Policy analysis Institute's international Hunger Index, 2016, has declared India's 67th rank of the eighty one countries of the globe with the worst food security standing. Food security within the United Nation's (UN) Development Programmes original construct of human security has been thought-about united of the necessary issue together with economic, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security. the aim of this joint paper is to stress the policies, problems and challenges for the food security in connection to Republic of India.

FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA

The world population is rising rapidly over the growth of food grains thus leading to food crisis. Access and distribution of food in order that people do not have enough and they die due to hunger and starvation. This problem continues even in the 21st century making Food Crisis one of the major global challenges. Various steps and measures are undertaken by countries to over this problem but their efforts to reduce hunger have remained inadequate. Some country programmes, in particular China and Brazil, have been successful through the progress they have achieved in providing access to food for their people and reducing poverty. in this people we will look at the Indian scenario w.r.t. food security as well as the steps taken by the government of India to obtain Food Security.

Food Security and it’s Challenges in India

isara solutions, 2014

Food security is access to enough food by all people at all time for an active and healthy life. India is truly developing now and its income, infrastructure, per capita income has also developed .But the major problem faced by India is “the problem food management and it’s distribution”. Agriculture is very important to India, employing 55% of its population and providing 16.5% of its annual GDP. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. India is the largest producer in the world of milk, cashew nuts, coconuts, tea, ginger, turmeric and black pepper. It also has the world’s largest cattle population (281 million). It is the second largest producer of wheat, rice, sugar, groundnut and inland fish. It is the third largest producer of tobacco. India accounts for 10% of the world fruit production with first rank in the production of banana. Despite ensuring ample availability of food, existence of food insecurity at the micro-level in the country has remained a formidable challenge for India. In the recently released Global Hunger Index of 2013, India ranked 63rd out of 120 countries and this report is quite disturbing because India is one of the largest producers of food in the world. Still India is not in the condition to meet the basic food requirements of people. There are many people in India who strive hard even for the square meals.

11. Food and Security in India

The world population is rising rapidly over the growth of food grains and as a consequence food crisis arises. There are now more than a billion malnourished people in the world meaning that almost one sixth of humanity is suffering from hunger. Fertility of land has been reduced due to over exploitation, excessive use of chemical fertilisers, insecticides and pesticides. Due to indiscriminate deforestation the amount of rainfall reduces and land erosion takes place. Natural calamities like droughts, floods, cyclones, global warming, melting glaciers, raising sea level etc. are increasing and environment is degraded. As a result the production of food grains decreases and made food crisis at a global level. Not only that sometimes food crisis arises not due to food shortage, there is enough food in the stock though some people are in starvation due to some failure of public distribution system. The crisis not food crisis, it is the policy crisis of the government. This is a tragedy from food surplus to food scarcity. This paper concentrates on sustainable food security in the long-run in a sustainable ecofriendly manner to cover the benefit every person not only for the present but also for the future generation.

FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

The World Food Conference1974 resolved that the food security ensures adequate supplies and availability. Food security has become a significant issue across the world predominantly in developing countries like India. In a report of International Food Policy Research Institute's Global Hunger Index, 2011, has declared India's 67 th rank of the 81 countries of the world with the worst food security status. Food security in the United Nation's (UN) Development Programmes original concept of human security has been considered as one of the important factor along with economic, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security. The Purpose of the present joint paper is to emphasize the policies, issues and challenges for the food security in relevance to India.

The Poor's Food Insecurity in India

This paper probes into food insecurity that the poor across the country are burdened with. Food-insecure people are those individuals whose food intake constantly falls below the minimum calorie (energy) requirements. The availability of food grains through the PDS is examined, followed by an investigation of the poor's accessibility to the food grains that policy promises to make available for them. By citing various findings and comments by experts, the severity of the food insecurity is emphasized. The paper covers issues like: (1) Ration Cards (the inadequacy of the food provision programme is delved into); (2) PDS Coverage (the debate between the universalization of and the targeting of the PDS is deliberated upon); (3) Accessibility (the food coupons / stamp as an integral part of the PDS is reviewed); and (4) Systemic (the various logistical and policy shortcomings of the PDS per se are investigated). Given the current neo-liberal orientation of the country's policies, this paper then reviews the inclusive development potential of the food security programme to empower the poor, while building collateral capacity.

Food Security in India: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

Discussions about Food security started in mid-1970s, during the deliberations of international food tribulations at the time of global food calamity. The preliminary spotlight of consideration was principally on issues related to food supply. India today has arrived at a juncture where the country is not anymore exposed to real food shortage, despite that even now there still exists certain pockets within India in which people are challenged with critical situations for the want of food. The World Bank says that India has highest number of people living below poverty line. The Asian Development Bank in its Basic Statistics says that the share of population below the National Poverty Line is 21.9% in 2011. Government of India estimates says that poverty declined has from 37.2% in 2004-05 to 29.8% in 2009-10. Issues related to Food Security calls for discussion and continued search for solutions. This paper is focused on the comprehension of concepts, dimensions, measurements related to Food Security; present a historical perspective of Food Security, make an estimation of global Food Security scenario, decipher food security scene in India in consonance with the National Food Security Act 2013, look into issues and challenges in achieving food security in India and conclude by suggesting measures to ensure national food security. Introduction: Food, clothing and shelter are our Primary Needs and food continue to be the focal point of our existence, central to the very survival of living beings ranging from infinitesimal insects and bacteria to the vegetation and animals to human beings on this globe. Devoid of food no human civilization will live to tell the tale. Hunger has been a driving force for human civilizations to develop and relocate and has also sustained the very purpose of creation by God, the creator of all beings. Hence food has always been the central point around which human beings have woven stories of continued existence on the face of this earth. However, food/foodstuff must be sufficient and wholesome for all the people of all age groups. Rapid multiplication of world population, diminishing land for agricultural purposes, the lack of sufficient available fresh water resources to meet water demand, insufficiency of resources and the lack of sufficient food for all the people on an

Food Security in India: Accumulated Wisdom and the Path ahead

Think India, 2019

The current work attempts to organize a detailed and thematic survey of the key empirical works on the food security scenario of India. This review paper recognizes its collected literature as a sample based on which inferences about the larger population of actual analytical patterns on this issue are made. We concentrate our attention on the selected empirical works on this issue undertaken during the period 1991-92 till 2018-19. Our sample of evidence has been constructed by accounting for the facts such as the disaggregated nature of the evidences and the differences in quality of analysis across different sources, among others. We have stressed particularly on the issues, debates, controversies and proposed solutions that have characterized the efforts on the analysis of food insecurity threat in India. Preliminarily, we find that there is a strong disagreement among the analysts on matters such as the fundamental units of analysis; the appropriate economic and social framework...