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National Food Policies Impacting on Food Security: The Experience of India, a Large Populated Country

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India accounts for 16.7 per cent of the world's food consumers. With the exception of China, India's size in terms of food consumers is many times larger than the average size of the rest of the countries. At the time of independence in 1947, India was in the grip of a serious food crisis, which was accentuated by the partition of the country. The demand for food far exceeded supply, food prices were high and more than half of the population living below the poverty line with inadequate purchasing power.

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  • Shabd S. Acharya, 2006. "National Food Policies Impacting on Food Security: The Experience of India, a Large Populated Country," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2006-70, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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