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Food Security for Interstate Migrants

Vol. 57, Issue No. 51, 17 Dec, 2022
Sarthak Agrawal, Archana Agnihotri

This article uses a newly compiled transaction-level data set on 2 million-plus ration purchases made by interstate migrants to study the One Nation, One Ration Card scheme. The analysis suggests that despite gaining momentum, the initiative may still have some distance to cover. Interstate transactions remain small compared to intra-state sales. Success in implementing and benefiting from the scheme is highly skewed.

Genetically Modified Mustard and Food Security

Vol. 57, Issue No. 47, 19 Nov, 2022
Avinash Kumar, Kushankur Dey

The field trials of genetically modified mustard allowed by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee and subsequently stayed by the Supreme Court pending scientific examination of information brings forth the debate about the role of modern technologies in addressing the pressing challenges of

Food Security in a Post-COVID-19 World

Vol. 57, Issue No. 37, 10 Sep, 2022
Renu Modi, Johann Salazar

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Food Consumption Expenditures and the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Vol. 57, Issue No. 32, 06 Aug, 2022
Nidhi Kaicker, Aashi Gupta, Raghav Gaiha

The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdowns and disruptions in food supply chains and emerged as both a demand- and a supply-side shock. Based on the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy– Consumer Pyramids Household Survey monthly expenditure data for the period from January 2019 to August 2021, changes in food expenditure shares in India as a result of the pandemic across income and socio-economic and demographic groups are examined. The pandemic-induced lockdowns resulted in a sharp increase in the share of food in the total expenditure across rural and urban India for all income groups and castes and religions, but the intensity of shifts varied.

Supply-side Problems in Food Loss and Waste

Vol. 57, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2022
Chandra S R Nuthalapati, S Mahendra Dev, Rajeev Sharma

The food systems approach proposes reducing food loss and waste as a potential solution to achieve food and nutritional security. This is formalised in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Despite the issue receiving such ubiquitous recognition, systematic efforts to measure and address FLW are absent in India. Our calculations show that one-sixth of agricultural production, accounting for one-tenth of the gross value added in agriculture, is lost. An efficient cold chain can reduce these losses substantially. However, the concept of an integrated cold chain is still in its infancy in the country, with greater emphasis being placed on single commodity cold storage. Promotional policies like the negotiable warehousing receipt system and the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund have not made an impact. Cold chain development will remain exclusive to export-oriented farmers and traders unless policies are introduced to enable small farmers, farmer producer organisations, and self-help groups to harness its benefits. Relevant start-up innovations can be scaled up through public support. A new institutional mechanism is needed to address the issue of FLW and achieve India’s SDGs.

 

Evaluation of the National Food Security Act, 2013 in Bihar: Reflections from the Field Study

Vol. 57, Issue No. 5, 29 Jan, 2022
The National Food Security Act, 2013 is a far-reaching public policy intervention to protect people against food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition. The NFSA 2013 brings the old public distribution system into the ambit of the NFSA 2013. The NFSA needs to be routinely evaluated for the better performance and assessment of its implementation as per the stated objectives. This study assesses the overall status and progress of the implementation of NFSA 2013 through the PDS in Bihar based on a field study conducted in 14 districts.

Agricultural Transformation or Compromising Food Security

Vol. 57, Issue No. 2, 08 Jan, 2022
Chris J Perry, M Dinesh Kumar

A response to the paper “Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship—I” by Mihir Shah, P S Vijayshankar, and Francesca Harris (EPW, 17 July 2021) argues that the solutions proposed in the paper will neither revolutionise India’s agriculture sector nor minimise the water and soil problems listed.

 

Alarming Hunger in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 50, 11 Dec, 2021
Md Zakaria Siddiqui, Shreya Biswas, Sunny Jose

Does the Global Hunger Index convey the actual picture of hunger in India? While there are methodological issues in the measurement of calorific undernourishment, India’s performance remains poor in tackling child undernutrition, but not so in child mortality. The varying performance in the three domains calls for an objective assessment and targeted remedial measures in aspects where performance is poor.

Impending Water Crisis in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 45-46, 06 Nov, 2021
Tapas Modak

Emerging Water Insecurity in India: Lessons from an Agriculturally Advanced State by Ranjit Singh Ghuman and Rajeev Sharma, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018; pp xxvi + 298, price not indicated.

Wholesale and Retail Food Prices in Maharashtra during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vol. 56, Issue No. 40, 02 Oct, 2021
Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Radhika Aggarwal

The analysis builds on the extant literature in three ways: it covers the longest period of the lockdown; offers robust comparisons of means and variances of food commodities’ prices and the price wedge between them in different cities/market centres in Maharashtra during the lockdown relative to the pre-pandemic period; and finally gives a distillation of time-series analysis of co-movements of wholesale and retail prices between pairs of centre/wholesale and retail prices, mutual dependence of wholesale and retail prices, taking their lags into account, and their time-varying volatility.

Pandemic Lessons

Vol. 56, Issue No. 33, 14 Aug, 2021
Eesha Kunduri, Shamindra Nath Roy, Shahana Sheikh

Eesha Kunduri (kundu025@umn.edu) is a PhD student at the Department of Geography, Environment and Society, and fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Shamindra Nath Roy (shamindra@cprindia.org) is a senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Shahana Sheikh (shahana.sheikh@yale.edu) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, Yale University.

Globalisation and the Indian Farmer

Vol. 56, Issue No. 28, 10 Jul, 2021
Yoginder K Alagh

The article analyses the impact of globalisation on income and levels of living in the rural sector. It also discusses the changes in India’s stance on food security in global negotiations.

 

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