percent of the irrigated area in the country. It is estimated that now over 70 percent of India’s food grain production …Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in the recent …

National Food Security Bill. After due deliberations and wide ranging consultations, the NAC finalized the details of the basic … framework of the proposed National Food Security Bill at its meeting held on 23 October, 2010. Based on the recommendations … already communicated to the Government, as a first step towards preparing the draft National Food Security Bill, a detailed …

food security. It supplements (i) the NAC recommendations on food security released on 23 October 2010; and (ii) the NAC … Framework Note on the Draft National Food Security Bill released on 21 January 2011.http://nac.nic.in/foodsecurity/explanatory_note.pdf …

National Food Security Bill (NFSB) aims to make food easily accessible at affordable prices to people. But there are …

investigation is the local production of food by self-help groups from the community where the anganwadi centre (AWC) is located …This study is an attempt to examine the decentralized production of supplementary nutrition which has been instituted …, which is believed to allow for better quality of food as compared to the centralized model, as well as have the added …

Food wastage is prevalent in Southeast Asia and has significant implications for the region’s food, environmental and … economic security. It is likely that the region wastes approximately 33 per cent of food, but accurate estimates are not … available due to dearth of quantitative information. Wastage occurs at all stages of food supply chains from the point of …

A Bill to provide for food and nutritional security, in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate … quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or … incidental thereto. Comments/suggestions on the draft Bill may be sent upto 30.09.2011 by email to ecoadv.fpd@nic.in. URL:[http://fcamin.nic.in/dfpd_html/Draft_National_Food_Security_Bill.pdf]. …

This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in India. The activity … baseline wage, along with piece rates per kilogram of output that vary over different production intervals. [BREAD working …