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

Food insecurity is a serious public health problem associated with poor cognitive and emotional development in children and with depression and poor health in adults.The need for achieving food security is felt significantly in the recent years due to enormous pressure from the ever-increasing population in India. 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. This paper is focused various Themes issues and challenges in food security in India.