THE FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SECURITY IN INDIA: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

N. MALLIKARJUNA SWAMY¹*, RAMESH^2
1Department Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560065, India
²Department Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560065, India
* Corresponding Author : vurguru026@gmail.com

Received : 07-08-2018     Accepted : 22-08-2018     Published : 30-08-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 16       Pages : 6900 - 6902
Int J Agr Sci 10.16 (2018):6900-6902

Keywords : food, nutritional, climate change, rural income, global price
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Author thankful to University of Agricultural Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignan Kendra, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560065, India
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

India has made greater strides in reducing the poverty level and implemented large number of programme for improving the food and nutritional security. Despite this, Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranked 97 out of 118 countries and as rated as “serious” hunger level in the 2016. The Government has pledged to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030 and GoI, which requires moving beyond the food security and should focus on raising the income of the people particularly in rural areas. The challenges were climate change, limited opportunities in generating rural income from non-farm activities, urbanizations and global food prices which further aggravates food and nutritional insecurity. To tackle the food insecurity focus should be given on crop diversification, public and private investment should be made in rural areas for generation of income from non-farm sectors and also regulating in the market price.

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