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Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global
challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular
significance worldwide. Not only does India account for
approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons,
it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may
not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on
this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security
problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic,
political and environmental processes. It contends that
under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human
development in India precisely because the interfaces between these
aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately
understood in policy-making communities. Only through an
integrative approach spanning the social and environmental
sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A
well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by
the FAO's conception of food security as encompassing availability
(production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional
content), as well as by Amartya Sen's notions of entitlements and
capabilities.
Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global
challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular
significance worldwide. Not only does India account for
approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons,
it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may
not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on
this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security
problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic,
political and environmental processes. It contends that
under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human
development in India precisely because the interfaces between these
aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately
understood in policy-making communities. Only through an
integrative approach spanning the social and environmental
sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A
well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by
the FAO's conception of food security as encompassing availability
(production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional
content), as well as by Amartya Sen's notions of entitlements and
capabilities.
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