By Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis
This quantity discusses the importance of human rights techniques to meals and how it pertains to gender concerns, addressing hyperlinks among starvation and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productiveness and the surroundings.
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These were merged in 1989 into a single component, the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY). The JRY was targeted at BPL families in rural areas. In 1993, a centrally sponsored 22 Food Policy in India scheme, the employment assurance scheme (EAS), was introduced in 1,778 backward development blocks for providing assured employment for 100 days to a maximum of two adults per family. Seventy-five per cent of the costs were borne by the central government and rest by the states. It was a demand driven scheme until 1999, after which resources were allotted to the states on the basis of the incidence of poverty.
Apart from measures to improve macro food and nutritional security, attention to household and individual food security was intensified during the 1980s, and several schemes to provide food assistance, create employment opportunities, and provide supplementary nutrition programmes 6 Food Policy in India were launched. Policy instruments for improving household food security implicitly followed the entitlement approach which recognized that people, especially in the rural areas, derive their livelihoods from production-, exchange-, labour- and transfer-based entitlements (Acharya 2002e).
In India, food subsidy has served the multiple objectives of minimum guaranteed prices to farmers, maintenance of buffer stocks, supply of subsidized foodgrains to different identified sections of the population, food-for-work and wage employment programmes, supply of relief food during natural disasters and open market sales for stabilizing market prices. Therefore, the magnitude of food subsidy is obvious from the government policies relating to each of the objectives mentioned above. 9). 1 billion in 2000/1 and further to Rs258 billion in 2003/4.