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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public …
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masterful job of [demonstrating] paradoxes of India's rapid economic growth concurrently with… persistent poverty, food …, Cornell University and 2001 World Food Prize Laureate This open access book examines India’s economic development … balanced diet. Within the context of developing countries, they highlight India’s status as an outlier regarding high levels of …
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Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world population and about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force, which makes the importance of research into...
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A mutual, two-way dependence of structural transformation and food security has bedeviled the development profession for decades, which has often ignored the critical role of agricultural development and food price stability as the underlying foundations to both structural transformation and...
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