The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …

Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture in India depends upon (1 …) investments in agriculture (private and public); (2) agricultural price incentives; and (3) rainfall. A log-linear model fitted … place in agriculture over this period. Other variables remain the same. This model also suggests that the agri-GDP growth …

Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP …

India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw … famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the government to foster the country's agriculture development and food …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is …

The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …