provide food security to the people of this country, especially the vulnerable ones. The recently enacted National Food … is concentration of poor, raising issues of equity. Further, the food subsidy bill is ballooning, with Rs 1.15 lakh … ensure that large sums of money being spent by GoI on PDS deliver food security more efficiently, with much lesser leakages …

buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of … famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the government to foster the country's agriculture development and food … security. The buffer stocking policy of food grains has become the one tool with the government used to fulfil the interlinked …

The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes … to benefit under the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) under the Act. The annual food grain requirement is … estimated at 61.43 million tonnes with annual food subsidy implication of around Rs. 1.31 lakh crore. The paper empirically maps …

The past fifty years have been a period of extraordinary food crop productivity growth, despite rising populations and … persisted for close to a billion people in the developing world. In the specific domain of food systems and agricultural …