processes that produces and consumes agricultural commodities on farms, transforms them into food in the marketing sector and … sells the food, to customen to satisfy nutritional, aesthetic and social needs. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …