Food Security in India: Chapter Overview
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What does food security mean?

  • Availability of food at all times (correct)
  • Having access to gourmet food items
  • Exclusivity of food for certain groups
  • Promoting fasting and limited food intake

    • Why are poor households more vulnerable to food insecurity?

  • They face difficulties in accessing and affording food during production or distribution problems (correct)
  • They have a preference for imported food items
  • They are dependent on the Public Distribution System (PDS)
  • They lack government vigilance and action

    • In the context of food security, what does 'accessibility' mean?

  • Food is within reach of every person (correct)
  • The ability to grow your own food
  • Being able to reach the nearest fast-food restaurant
  • The ease of ordering food online

    • Why is affordability an important dimension of food security?

    <p>To ensure that individuals have enough money to buy sufficient, safe, and nutritious food</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which factor ensures food security in a country?

    <p>Adequate availability of food for all persons and their capacity to buy it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the context of food security?

    <p>To ensure equitable distribution of essential food items to vulnerable populations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the 1995 World Food Summit declare about food security?

    <p>Food security exists when all people have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food at all times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Amartya Sen, what is essential for food security?

    <p>Entitlements, which include what one can produce, exchange in the market, and state or other socially provided supplies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the key factor that led to the deaths of agricultural labourers, fishermen, and transport workers in the Famine of Bengal in 1943?

    <p>Shortage of safe and nutritious food available in the province.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary consequence of a natural calamity causing a decrease in the production of foodgrains?

    <p>Shortage of food leading to increased prices and decreased affordability for some people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the 1975 understanding of food security primarily focus on?

    <p>Availability at all times of an adequate supply of basic foodstuffs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the 1995 World Food Summit declaration recognize as essential for improving access to food?

    <p>Eradication of poverty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Amartya Sen, what does 'entitlements' refer to in the context of food security?

    <p>A combination of what one can produce, exchange in the market, and state or other socially provided supplies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the major contribution made by Amartya Sen to the understanding of food security?

    <p>Emphasis on 'access' to food through 'entitlements.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Food security at the individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when' _____.

    <p>All people have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Famine is characterized by wide spread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by' _____.

    <p>'Forced use of contaminated water or decaying food.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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