traditionally under cultivation and intrinsically linked with food security, livelihood and cultural identity of local tribal … level of food security to the poor. They are also valued for their better nutritious profile of the grains and high quality … nutraceutical property in food grains. The long shelf life of these grains is also an attribute preferred by the communities living …

This paper is an attempt to explore the problems faced by Indian agriculture for food security in terms of inadequate … food processing industry about 30-35 percent of all foods produced in India are wasted. This paper examines the critical … technologies, installation of food processing plants in various sectors and development of food retailing sector are mandatory for …

Agriculture in India is most important sector for food security and socio-economic development. Agriculture accounted … Indian agriculture for food security in terms of inadequate infrastructure and highly inefficient supply chain in context of … address the issue of infrastructure development to achieve the objective of food security for all. …

improvement. Kenya is the largest food and agricultural products importer in east Africa. About 82% of the total land in Kenya is … classified as arid and semi-arid. Agricultural products depend on proper rainfall. Staple food of Kenya is maize, which accounted … about 65% of total staple food caloric intake and 36% of total food caloric intake. The cash income of the rural people of …

is the main occupation and maize is the staple food. About 90% farmers of the country are smallholders, dependent on rain … fed agriculture. After independence it was rich in food and could export maize but since 2002 it has to import maize every … to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 49% of the Zambian population is undernourished and unable to access minimum …

improvement. Main staple food of Kenya is maize, which accounted about 65% of total staple food caloric intake and 36% of total … food caloric intake. Kenya is the largest food and agricultural products importer in the eastern Africa. At present the … Government of the country is trying to reduce poverty. The country is developing in food security and nutrition since the last …

This paper evaluates the effects of cash transfer (CT) programmes introduced during the 1990s and 2000s on food …-intervention food insecurity trajectories of economies affected by CT programmes relative to their unaffected counterparts. The results … upper-middle income countries in our sample show mixed effects for the application of CT programmes on food insecurity …

The most important way to increase the grain yield of food legumes per unit area under stress environment should be …

During the past decades, there has been much debate on food security. A variety of indicators have been proposed in … order to establish which countriesare in need of improved food security status. The heterogeneity of existing indicators and … composite indexes for food security. To this extent, we have computed several composite indexes for food security by using data …