Food security is one of the twenty-first century s key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world s under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security.
This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India s chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are...
Food security is one of the twenty-first century s key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. No...