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Sketching the Trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security in India: A Contextual Analysis

In: Analytical Issues in Growth & Structural Change, Macroeconomy, Security, and Sustainability of India's Economic Development

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  • Purba Chattopadhyay

    (University of Calcutta, Department of Home Science)

Abstract

Food, apart from being a basic necessity, signifies our culture, our emotion, history, socialization, economic conditions, geographical location, and stage of the developmental process. The world today has diverse cuisines and innumerable options of food constituted through a complex permutation and combination of spices, animal or plant origin ingredients tempered at various moderations of temperature and time. However, this same world houses millions of hungry people. In the context of the above, the present chapter looks into the concept of hunger in the Indian economy. It then analyses the concept of food security and its three dimensions and tries to trace the path of food security for India. Next, it looks into the concept of nutrition security and brings out the differences between food and nutrition security. Finally, it concludes that nutrition security is a much wider term than food security and to achieve nutrition security an integrated approach of multiple sectors is needed for it to succeed.

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  • Purba Chattopadhyay, 2026. "Sketching the Trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security in India: A Contextual Analysis," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Biswajit Chatterjee & Asim K. Karmakar (ed.), Analytical Issues in Growth & Structural Change, Macroeconomy, Security, and Sustainability of India's Economic Development, pages 205-214, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-95-5242-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-5242-9_11
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    JEL classification:

    • H8 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues
    • I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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