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1. Food Insecure
Approximately one out of six people are "food insecure",
including 17 million children, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.

3. Who are food-insecure?
Although a large section of
people suffer from food and
nutrition insecurity in India, the
worst affected groups are
landless people with little or no
land to depend upon, traditional
artisans, providers of traditional
services, petty self-employed
workers and destitute including
beggars.
In the urban areas, the food
insecure families are those
whose working members are
generally employed in ill-paid
occupations and casual labour
market.

4. Story Of Ramu And Ahmad
Ramu works as a casual laborer in agriculture in Raipur
village. Ahmad is a rickshaw puller in Bangalore.

6. AGRICULTURE LABOURER
(In This : Collection of Grains)
CATTLE HERDER
(In This : A young cattle herder)
CLEANER FOR LIVESTOCK
(In This : Cow dung cleaning)
A CONSTRUCTOR
(In This : Brick laying construct)

7. RICKSHAW PULLER
(In This : Search of Travelers)
JHUGGI
(In This : Waiting for Water)
PDF CARD
(In This : PDF card of an Indian)
PEOPLE BELOW POVERT LINE
(In This : Living without shelter)

8. Why is Food insecure?
 The social composition along with the inability to buy food also plays
a role in food insecurity.
 The SCs, STs, and some other sections of OBCs (lower caste) who
have either poor land base or very low land productivity are prone to
food insecurity.
 The people affected by natural disasters, who have to migrate to other
areas in search of work, are also among the most food insecure
people.
 A high incidence of malnutrition prevails among women.
 This is a matter of serious concern as it puts even unborn baby at the
risk of malnutrition.
 A large proportion of pregnant and nursing mothers and children
under the age of 5 years constitute an important segment of the food
insecure population.
NOTE: According to National Health and Family Survey(NHFS) 1998-99, the
number of such women and children is approximately 11 crore.

9. CONTINUATION
 The food insecure people ae disproportionally large in some regions of the
country, such as economically backward states with high incidence of
poverty, tribal and remote areas, regions more prone to natural disasters
etc..
 The largest state which accounts for the largest number of food insecure
people is __________________.
 Hunger is another aspect indicating food insecurity.
 Hunger is not just an expression of poverty, it brings about poverty.
 The attainment of food security therefore involves eliminating current
hunger and reducing the risks of future hunger.
 Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions.
 Chronic hunger is a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms
of quantity and/or quality.
 Poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their very low income
and in turn inability to buy food even for survival
 The states of Uttar Pradesh (eastern and south-eastern parts), Bihar,
Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, parts of Madhya Pradesh.
Maharashtra

11. India is aiming at Self-sufficiency in Food grains
since Independence.
 After independence, Indian policy makers adopted all measures to
achieve self-sufficiency in food grains.
 India adopted a new strategy in agriculture, which resulted in the
‘Green Revolution’ especially in the production of wheat and rice.
 Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, officially recorded
the impressive strides of the Green revolution in agriculture by
releasing a special stamp entitled ‘Wheat Revolution’ in July 1968.
 The success of wheat was later replicated in rice. The increase in
food grains was, however, disproportionate. The highest rate of
growth has been achieved in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, where food
grain production reached an all-time high of 78.9 million tones in
2012–13.
 Production of food grain in Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Assam, Tamil
Nadu has dropped.
 West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, recorded
significant increases in rice yield in 2012-13.

13. LAND
DEGREDATION
Land degradation is a concept in which the
value of the biophysical environment is affected
by one or more combination of human-induced
processes acting upon the land.

14. LAND DEGREDATION
• Land degradation is a concept in
which the value of the biophysical
environment is affected by one or
more combination of human-induced
processes acting upon the land.
• It is viewed as any change or
disturbance to the land perceived to
be deleterious or undesirable.
• Natural hazards are excluded as a
cause, however human activities can
indirectly affect phenomena such as
floods and bushfires.
• It is estimated that up to 40% of the
world's agricultural land is seriously
degraded.

15. Cause of land degradation
 Land clearance, such as clear cutting and
deforestation.
 Agricultural depletion of
soil nutrients through poor farming
practices.
 Livestock including overgrazing.
 Inappropriate Irrigation and over
drafting
 Urban sprawl and commercial
development
 Land pollution including industrial waste
 Vehicle off-roading
 Quarrying of stone, sand, ore and
minerals
(In These Pictures : Overgrazing by livestock can
lead to land degradation)

16. FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
The food has to be checked before each packing for
avoiding diseases.

17. FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA
 Since the advent of the Green revolution
in the early-’70s, the country has avoided
famine even during adverse weather
conditions.
 India has become self-sufficient in food
grains during the last thirty years because
of a variety of crops grown all over the
country.
 The availability of food grains (even in
adverse weather conditions or otherwise)
at the country level has further been
ensured with a carefully designed food
security system by the government.
 This system has two components:
(a) BUFFER STOCK
(b) PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Rs 50 Crore Fund to Maintain
Buffer Stock of Potatoes.

18. BUFFER STOCK SYSTEM
A buffer stock scheme is commonly implemented
as intervention storage, the "ever-normal granary”

19. What is Buffer Stock?
 Buffer Stock is the stock of food grains, namely wheat
and rice procured by the government through Food
Corporation of India (FCI).
 The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in
states where there is surplus production.
 The farmers are paid a pre-announced price for their
crops. This price is called Minimum Support Price.
 The MSP is declared by the government every year
before the sowing season to provide incentives to the
farmers for raising the production of these crops.
 The purchased food grains are stored in granaries.
 Q)Do you know why this buffer stock is created
by the government?
 A)This is done to distribute food grains in the
deficit areas and among the poorer strata of
society at a price lower than the market price
also known as Issue Price.
 This also helps resolve the problem of shortage of
food during adverse weather conditions or during the
periods of calamity.