Food Governance in India (eBook, ePUB)

Rights, Security and Challenges in the Global Sphere
Redaktion: Beri, Ruchita; Kolås, Åshild; Upadhyaya, Anjoo Sharan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of socio-political, economic and agricultural challenges to ensure self-sufficiency in food production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000554731
• Artikelnr.: 63357551

Autorenporträt

Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya has served as a professor of political science at Banaras Hindu University since 1997. Her research interests are women and peace, human security, digital technologies and governance. She has edited several books, including Nepal in Transition to Democracy (2013), is the coeditor of the biannual journal, Peace Works and is the co-author of Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century (forthcoming). Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Her core areas of expertise are governance, identity politics and peacebuilding. She is the editor of several anthologies, including Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics (2019) and Sovereignty Revisited: The Basque Case (2017, co-edited with Pedro Ibarra Güell). Ruchita Beri is a senior research associate and centre coordinator for the Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and United Nations Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. She has edited several books including India and Africa: Common Security Challenges for the Next Decade (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Food for a growing India 1. India's National Food Security Act (NFSA): Early experiences 2. The eco-system of India's food security regime 3. Addressing nutritional security challenges in India 4. The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in Eastern Uttar Pradesh 5. Entitlements for the deprived: An empirical study of household food security in Karnataka and Bihar 6. Food entitlements: Political will versus state preparedness in Odisha 7. Global governance and India's food governance and security 8. The role of Israel in India's food security 9. The G20 and India's food security concerns 10. Climate change and food security in India: Domestic and global solutions. Index.