Home to over 25 per cent of the world’s hungry poor, India faces major food security challenges and the situation has … barely improved in two decades. Will the National Food Security Bill that the Indian Parliament is expected to pass this … month alleviate the country’s food insecurity? [RSIS Commentaries No. 012/2012]. URL …

This paper examines how the patterns of India’s food consumption have been changing in recent times as a consequence … nutritional implications of these changes to reinforce some of the findings on the observed changes in the food consumption … explanation for these changes in India’s food consumption. …

households for studying the effects of intervention over time. Findings revealed substantial improvement in self-rated food …-expenditure and food consumption. Improvement was observed in children’s nutritional status, and use of contraceptives. Morbidity …

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]. …

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 …

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