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The book is the outcome of the IHD-WFP workshop on ‘Food Insecurity and Child Work’ held in Delhi in March 2001. Poverty, seasonal food distress and vulnerability to hunger due to recurrent natural calamities alter the lifestyles and coping mechanisms of affected families with adverse consequences on the freedom and the education of their children. However, the availability of timely support in the form of food can become the ...
India is often cited as a land of paradoxes. This is certainly true when it comes to food security. Despite a decline in poverty, close to 30 per cent of its people are food insecure and one-half of its children malnourished in one way or another. And yet the country has a stock of more than 60 million tones of foodgrains stored through government’s procurement. Increased food prices, shrinkage of area under foodgrains and escalating food subsidy are now the ...
The present study is an attempt at developing indicators of sustainability, compressing them into indices and applying these indices to assess the sustainability of development at various levels of the Indian economy. The levels assessed include the country level, both in terms of international comparisons and changes in the country's development path over time, sub-country levels--views state and district economies, and at the micro level of a hill resort town ...