Chapter 4 Food Security In India Flashcards
Learn about food security, dimensions,pds etc.
What is food security? Or what are its dimensions?
It means availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people.
How is food security affected during a calamity?
Total production of food decreases.
Prices go up.
People won’t be able to afford due to high prices
If calamity happens in very wide area then, a situation of famine or starvation might happen.
Most devastating famine of india?
1943 famine of bengal
Who are the food insecure people?
The worst affected groups are landless people, artisans, beggars. In urban areas people employed in I’ll paid occupations.
Differentiate between seasonal and chronic hunger.
Chronic hunger is having food continuously that is inadequate in terms of quality and quantity. Poor people suffer mostly from chronic hunger.
People not able to have food in some time in a year due to the seasonal nature of agricultural activity. Agricultural people suffer from this.
What is buffer stock?
It is the stock of food grains produced by the government through fci. The fci purchases wheat and rice from farmers at msp.
When was RPDS Introduced?
1992
Demerits of PDS?
Hunger is still prevalent in India.
Fci go downs are overflowing with grains.
Farmers only producing wheat and rice.
PDS dealers resorting to malpractices
India producing around 82 tonnes of food when only 33 tonnes is required.
Which states are more prone to food insecurity?
Backward states like up, bihar, jharkhand.
Tribal, remote areas
Areas which are prone to natural disasters.
Do you believe green revolution has made India self sufficient?
Yes.
Due to growth of large amount of crops, India has buffer stock.
No major famine has occurred since the famine of 1943.
A section of people are still without food?
Due to food distribution.
Due to problems of infrastructure and transport buffer stock cannot reach in areas like jharkhand.
Poverty also plays a role, even if food is available people might not be able to afford it.
Why are buffer stock created?
They are created to distribute food to food deficit areas and to very poor people of society at a affordable price.
Role of cooperatives?
They set up shops to sell low priced goods to poor people. For example mother diary and academy of development science.
How can you help poor people in food security?
Setting up cooperative stores.
By raising awareness about poverty alleviation programmes.
By providing standard level of nutrition.
Why there is a need of food security?
The poorest section of society might be food insecure.
Due to natural calamity
People not able to buy food due to high prices.
