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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.
Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in
Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into
the contested topic of 'governance and governed' from a
state-society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the
centrality of an understanding of state-governance today is rooted
in concerns regarding diversities and contingencies of concrete
political reality to address inequalities, exclusion and
vulnerabilities. These countries are part of the BRICSs consortium,
and have been recognised for their growth potential in the world
economy. But their economic progress alone may not necessarily
translate into a better quality of life. The approach here is not
to focus on a particular understanding of governance, but to
utilise a wider lens to understand the nature and extent of
incremental processes in the different case-study contexts in order
to offer a broader framework for procedural and substantive
understanding of governance, rather than a prescription of a
government and its activity of governing. The focus is on deriving
practical lessons about governance process that are of interest to
the wider development community.
This book analyses and discusses the multiple dimensions of social
exclusion/inclusion seen in South Asia. It not only captures how
'social exclusion' is intrinsic to deprivation or deprivation in
itself, but also the processes of political engagement and social
interactions that the socially excluded develop as strategies and
networks for their advancement. Consequently, the book goes beyond
structures or agency, and examines the question of a more dynamic
approach to provide spaces for the 'socially excluded' to
self-manage exclusion, thereby raising discussions around the
contested positions that underlie development discourse on social
inequality. While social exclusion linked to identities is studied,
the book argues that hierarchies and inequalities based on social
identities cut across and affect various groups of excluded.
Consequently, these phenomena create or lead to various processes
of exclusion. The book illustrates that social exclusion should not
be limited to privileging the differences that characterize the
exclusionary processes, but should also comprise underpinning
strategies of 'inclusion', emphasizing the need to focus on
imperatives 'to include'. As a result, the book acknowledges that
social exclusion is not limited to analyzing the different
identities that face exclusion, but also understanding the systems
and processes that create social exclusion, or create opportunities
for inclusion of the excluded.The book addresses readership across
academic disciplines (including in the growing field of state
capacity and governance), and practitioners (administrators and
policy-making communities). Conclusively, the book, provides a
platform to intensively exchange the multifaceted and critical
issue of social exclusion/inclusion, and thus contributes to
inclusive sustainable development discourse.
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