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About the Book Food security is an important component of human welfare and considered the most important basic requirement for human resource development. Food security as a goal sets before itself the norms in regard to the availability of food, firstly, this should ensure basic existence of people and at the next level, it should serve the minimum nutritional standards for their active and healthy life. The present stage of development of India warrants the analysis to be made from the perspective of the latter norm. The poverty level (as learnt from various studies) has come down in terms of Head Count Ratio (HCR), for both urban and rural areas. The results originate from the studies, keeping the yardstick so low that corresponded to just the minimum energy-intake. The variants of the measure, providing for differences in gender, occupation, age, etc., did not improve the standards set, beyond denoting minimum existence. Despite the fact, that even this lower standard is not yet reached by people fully, the stage of development (the rise in the extent of agricultural production, being a compelling reason) obtaining now, necessitate a higher nutritional standard being made available to people. It is because, the success of planning has to be construed from the angle of enhancing “capabilities” of people. The food security in the above sense, will correspond to insulating the people against, not only under-nutrition, but as well as against malnutrition.
ISBN : 9788183872386
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Pages : 303
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