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Reforming Foodgrains Management: Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness
Kumar, A. Ganesh; Gulati, Ashok; Ralph Cummings, Jr. - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...
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Breaking New Ground: Enacting a National Land Use Policy
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2013
With only a total land area of 30 million hectares and a population of 92.3 million growing at an average rate of 2.12 percent, how should the Philippines allocate a very scarce and important resource—land—to meet the various needs of Filipinos? The Senate proposes a national land...
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Subsidizing the National Food Authority: Is It a Good Policy?
eSocialSciences; Senate Economic Planning Office SEPO - 2012
National Food Authority's (NFA) twin mandate of price stabilization and food security has cost the government billions of pesos in losses over the past few decades. As such, there is a need to reexamine the NFA to determine whether the benefits gained from its continued operation justifies the...
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Agricultural Productivity and Credit- Issues and Way Forward
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2011
Certain trends in agricultural productivity, agricultural finance are outlined. Recommendations for improving agricultural productivity are given here. [Address at The National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture at CAB, Pune]. URL:[http://rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=596].
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The National Food Security Bill, 2011-as introduced in Lok Sabha
Sabha, Lok - eSocialSciences - 2011
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 to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. [as introduced in Lok Sabha].
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In Search of Food Security: Addressing Opacity and Price Volatility in ASEAN's Rice Sector
Trethewie, Sally - eSocialSciences - 2012
The availability of rice has long been considered a key indicator of food security in Southeast Asia. However for … largely strategic reasons there is paucity of information in the public domain on rice availability, particularly figures on … doing so based on opaque information, and this has had significant impact on rice price information. When price shocks and …
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Food Consumption and Calorie Intake in Contemporary India
Chatterjee, Srikanta; Rae, Allan; Ray, Ranjan - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper examines how the patterns of India’s food consumption have been changing in recent times as a consequence of its faster economic growth and generally rising affluence levels. The study, also, presents evidence on the nutritional implications of these changes to reinforce some...
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Review of Input and Output Policies for Cereals Production in Pakistan
Salam, Abdul - eSocialSciences - 2012
This report reviews the input and output policies for cereals implemented in Pakistan during the period 1996–2010. Pakistan has a long and varied history of intervening in farm input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. [IFPRI Discussion Paper 01223]....
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Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution
eSocialSciences - 2013
The proposed legislation marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food security – from the current welfare approach to a right based approach. About two thirds of the population will be entitled to receive subsidized foodgrains under Targeted Public Distribution System. It will...
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Agricultural Credit - Accomplishments and Challenges
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2012
Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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