Download PDF - ReliefWeb

More documents

Recommendations

Info

or the Mid-Day Meals Scheme, and link them with the medium term development interventions. It is through such schemes of employment and schooling; the PDS and ICDS, that the Right to Food is currently realizable. The challenge is to link schemes of short-term food access with medium-term development interventions, which alone can provide a stable basis for food security. Realizing the Right to Food is not just about improving the functioning of government schemes or the administration but about mobilizing more and more people, women and men, to assert their democratic will over the political and administrative processes. Rajasthan, through its pioneering initiatives on the Right to Information and Social Audits (Jan Sunvais) has made a good beginning in this area; steps that can be consolidated in realizing food security and the Right to Food. 4 FOOD SECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL RAJASTHAN
1. Introduction 1. Introduction India has seen in impressive growth rate in the last decade with the GDP averaging more than 7 per cent per annum. Despite this rapid growth, India is still home to more than a quarter of the hungry people in the world. Rapid growth has not translated into a commensurate reduction in poverty and hunger. The current turmoil in world food markets, with sharp rises in food prices, and the recent global economic downturn together threaten to make the food security situation in India even worse. Despite significant achievements in food grain production, high incidence of hunger and undernutrition continue to plague the country. These vicissitudes bring home the stark truth that food security is a critical and continuing challenge and there is no place for complacency on this front. In 1996, the World Food Summit (WFS) and subsequently the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognized the importance of achieving food security and reducing hunger by half by the year 2015. As a following to the WFS, a 2002 assessment called ‘World Food Summit — Five Years Later,’ pointed out that there has been a decrease in hunger at the rate of 8 million people per year across the world. But in order to achieve the goal of reducing world hunger by half by 2015, it is necessary to reduce the incidence of malnutrition by 15 million per year. Continuing to implement the current economic, political and social policies will not enable the world to reach this goal by 2015. A mid-course correction in these policies is needed in order to achieve the above stated goals. Despite India recording a high rate of economic growth in recent years, there is a major concern with the failure of that growth to translate into a somewhat proportionate reduction in poverty and malnutrition. The problem of large-scale famine-related starvation deaths seems to have been largely resolved, partly due to combined efforts from vigilant civil society and media. Nonetheless, there are periodic reports of malnutrition and starvation from different parts of the country; particularly from the politically marginal social groups, the Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Scheduled Castes (SCs). Besides this problem of starvation among the STs, there is the pervasive incidence of malnutrition, particularly of children and women. Even sustained increases in income have not resulted in commensurate improvements in their nutritional status. The persistence of malnutrition and the reported occurrence of starvation deaths together define the nature of the current problem of food insecurity within a situation of overall adequate availability of foodgrains. The fact that they occur within a situation of adequate foodgrain availability (domestic foodgrain production plus amounts released from government stocks plus imports made possible by India’s burgeoning foreign exchange reserves), serves to underline the importance of framing adequate policies and interventions to ensure food security, or access to food, for not just households, but also individuals. It also provides the rationale for this report, prepared by the Institute for Human Development (IHD), on behalf of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP). The UN World Food Programme and the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) earlier collaborated in analyzing the food insecurity situation in various states in the country. Using chosen indicators to map the relative standing of states with regard to food security, MSSRF and WFP prepared INTRODUCTION 5
Page 1: Food Security Atlas Of RURAL RAJAST
Page 4 and 5: Copyright © 2009 UN World Food Pro
Page 6 and 7: TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP Chairperso
Page 9 and 10: Preface India is home to more than
Page 11 and 12: Acknowledgements The preparation of
Page 13 and 14: Contents Foreword Preface Acknowled
Page 15 and 16: List of Tables, Figures, Maps and B
Page 17 and 18: List of Abbreviations ADAPT AIDIS A
Page 19 and 20: Executive Summary Executive Summary
Page 21: • Expansion of irrigation in a ma
Page 25 and 26: What an individual or household can
Page 27 and 28: outcomes rather than inputs, Chapte
Page 29 and 30: (vi) Flood Prone Eastern Plains Thi
Page 31 and 32: Table 2.1: Net State Domestic Produ
Page 33 and 34: Table 2.3: Share (per cent) of Diff
Page 35 and 36: Figure 2.1: Region-wise Percentage
Page 37 and 38: Table 2.7: Socio-Economic Status of
Page 39 and 40: Across the regions, there exists a
Page 41 and 42: Map 2.2: Level of Urbanization stat
Page 43 and 44: Table 2.12: Status of Consumption P
Page 45 and 46: 3. Analysis of Food Security 3. Ana
Page 47 and 48: Box 3.1: Towards MDG - 4 India acco
Page 49 and 50: It follows from the preceding discu
Page 51 and 52: 3.2 Explaining Food Security Taking
Page 53 and 54: geographical restrictions on develo
Page 55 and 56: 6. Wage Rate of Rural Persons: Casu
Page 57 and 58: 3.3 Food Security Index (FSI) The F
Page 59 and 60: Box 4.1: Agricultural Production an
Page 61 and 62: Table 4.3: Per Capita Value of Agri
Page 63 and 64: Map 4.2: Share of Irrigated Area Ta
Page 65 and 66: Map 4.3: Status of Rural Connectivi
Page 67 and 68: Map 4.4: Share of Area under Forest
Page 69 and 70: Table 4.7: Indicators used to Compu
Page 71 and 72: 5. Access to Food 5. Access to Food
Page 73 and 74:
Table 5.2: Status of Rural Wages in
Page 75 and 76:
Map 5.2: Status of Consumption Expe
Page 77 and 78:
Map 5.3: Share of Agricultural Labo
Page 79 and 80:
Table 5.8: Proportion of Scheduled
Page 81 and 82:
Table 5.10: Ratio of Rural Working
Page 83 and 84:
Table 5.12: Status of Rural Female
Page 85 and 86:
Map 5.7: Women Workforce Participat
Page 87 and 88:
Table 5.14: Indicators Used to Comp
Page 89 and 90:
6. Food Absorption 6. Food Absorpti
Page 91 and 92:
Map 6.1: Access to Health Services
Page 93 and 94:
Table 6.3: Access to Safe Drinking
Page 95 and 96:
Table 6.4: Indicators Used to Compu
Page 97:
7. Addressing Food Insecurity in Ra
Page 100 and 101:
prioritize the geographical targeti
Page 102 and 103:
It emerges from the analysis that t
Page 104 and 105:
7.3 Strategies for Promoting Food S
Page 106 and 107:
Box 7.1: National Policy for Farmer
Page 108 and 109:
Figure 7.2: Bharat Nirman Physical
Page 110 and 111:
Table 7.5: Percentage Share of Poor
Page 112 and 113:
Table 7.6: Status of Public Interve
Page 114 and 115:
Table 7.8: NREGA Statistics of Raja
Page 116 and 117:
get a second crop of wheat apart fr
Page 118 and 119:
as when medical emergencies require
Page 120 and 121:
Infants and Young Children Box 7.7:
Page 122 and 123:
8. Conclusion: Towards a Food Secur
Page 124 and 125:
2007). Revitalizing the agrarian ec
Page 126 and 127:
Given women’s general responsibil
Page 128 and 129:
Table 8.1: Key Interventions in Pri
Page 130 and 131:
References References Acharya, S.S.
Page 132 and 133:
Singh, Dalbir, (2004), “Livelihoo
Page 134 and 135:
Thus, rights require state action w
Page 136 and 137:
perpetuation of both endemic starva
Page 138 and 139:
Name of Variable and Description So
Page 140 and 141:
their respective means (i.e., X / X
Page 142 and 143:
Appendix III: Index Value, Normativ
Page 144 and 145:
District Table A3.3: Index Values a
Page 147:
The Food Security Atlas of Rural Ra
show all

Download PDF - ReliefWeb

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?