Monday, February 28, 2011

FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA - PART I

OVERVIEW

1. What is food security?
2. Who are more vulnerable to food insecurity?
3. What is PDS?

WHAT IS FOOD SECURITY?

4. What are the dimensions of food security?
5. What does availability of food mean?
6. What does accesibility mean?
7. What does affordability mean?
8. What are the conditions to ensure food security in a country?

WHY FOOD SECURITY?

9. How is food security affected during a calamity?
10. What is a famine?
11. What was the most devastating famine in India? When did it occur?
12. How many people were killed in this famine?
13. What are the other places in India where famine like conditions prevail even today?
14. What are the states where starvation deaths are reported?

WHO ARE FOOD INSECURE?

15. Who are the worst affected people who suffer food insecurity?
16. Who are food insecure in urban areas? Why are they affected this way?
17. Get to know the story of Ramu. Try to analyse what are the reasons for his suffering.
18. Get to know the story of Ahmad. Try to analyse what are the reasons for his suffering.
19. How does the social composition affect food security?
20. How are SCs, STs and OBCs afffected?
21. How are people affected by natural disasters?
22. A high incidence of malnutrition prevails in --------------.
23. Who constitute an important segment of the food insecure population?
24. What is NHFS? What is its report regarding women and children?
25. What are the states where most of the food insecurity is reported?
26. What are the effects of poverty over hunger?
27. Hunger has ----------- and ---------------- dimensions.
28. What is chronic hunger? How are people affected?
29. What is seasonal hunger? How are people affected?
30. The percentage of chronic and seasonal hunger has declined over the years. True or False?
32. India is aiming at -------------- since independence.
33. What is Green Revolution?
34. Who released a stamp entitled 'Wheat Revolution'? When?
35. The highest rate of growth of wheat was achieved in the states of ---------- and ----------------.
36. ---------------- and ------------------------ recorded significant increases in rice yield.

FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA

37. Since the Green Revolution no famine is recorded in India. True or False?
38. Is the food security system of India safe?
39. What are the two components of food security system of India?

WHAT IS BUFFER STOCK?

40. waht is buffer stock?
41. What is FCI?
42. What are the functions of FCI?
43. What is MSP?
44. What is the purpose of MSP?
45. Why is the buffer stock created by the government?
46. What is Issue Price?
47. How does IP help?

WHAT IS THE PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM?

48. What is PDS?
49. What are Ration shops? How are they otherwise known?
50. What are sold at the ration shops?
51. What is a ration card?
52. What are the stipulated amount of the food items supplied to the people?
53. What are the three kinds of ration cards?
54. When was rationing introduced in India?
55. When was this system revived? By whom?
56. What were the three important food intervention programmes introduced?
57. What is ICDS?
58. What is FFW?
59. What is PAPs?
60. How does mid-day meals programme contribute to food security?
61. How do employment programmes contribute to food security?
62. Name some of the programmes initiated by the government which have food component.
63. What do you understand about National Food for Work programme?

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