Abstract
This article examines how the definition of food security has evolved over the years to till date and the causes of food insecurity. It looks at the state of food insecurity in India’s Dalit communities. The paper tried to identify the main causes of the widespread of food insecurity that prevails in India and it analyzed how to linked food insecurity issue with pubic stockholding in the WTO’s Agreement of Agriculture is one of the key issues being discussed. It indicates that the Scheduled caste (Dalit) groups remain the poorest among the social groups, belonging to agricultural labourer, day labourer and casual labour are the worst sufferers. Thus the problem of insecurity in India is not of general systematic failure that arises due to supply shortage. It is problems where certain sector mainly marginalized population in the rural agrarian sector and urban informal sectors suffer from a shortage a food in a general climate of increasing production. Delving deeper, we observe the main determinates of food insecurity in India in today is shrinking of agrarian population incomes related to productions which are depending on due to policy framework and implication is conducted by international institutions indirectly. Finally, it examines government’s balancing policy between national food security act and international institution WTO’s ‘agreement of agriculture policy’ on the behalf of Indian marginalized people who are mostly belong to Dalit communities.
Highlights
Food security can be defined as a situation wherein all households have physical and economic access to adequate food for all members, and where households are not at risk of deprivation of this basic access
Other programs which aim to contribute to national food security include (a) National Food Security Mission targeted towards increasing the production of wheat, rice, and pulses, in selected districts with an outlay of Rs. 48.8 billion for five years20; (b) the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (National Agricultural Development Program)21 with a five year outlay of Rs. 250 billion, which aims to incentivize the state governments to increase their share of investment in agriculture; (c) approval of the National Policy for Farmers22, which focuses on economic well being of farmers; and (d) a farm loan waiver program of Rs.710 billion to provide relief to 40 million farmers to make them eligible for fresh loans [10]
We can say that food security problem in India is not serious if we success in the proper distribution policy
Summary
Food security can be defined as a situation wherein all households have physical and economic access to adequate food for all members, and where households are not at risk of deprivation of this basic access. This access is inseparably linked to the larger question of the survival of humanity. Doi:10.4172/2332-0761.1000190 and analysis was passed and became a law on 12th September 2013 According to this Act, Food Security is defined as the availability of sufficient food grains to meet the domestic demand as well as access, at the individual level, to adequate means of food at affordable prices. A central aspect of food security is the discrepancy between availability (at a higher level) and accessibility (at the lowest level)4 [3]
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