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Food Security Law - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Food Security Law - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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"An across-the-board reference book on Food Security in India"
Despite good economic performance in recent years, India is home to the largest number of hungry people in the world, with over 200 million people who are food insecure. The Food Security Act, 2013 aims to provide food security to 75 per cent of the rural and 50 per cent of the urban population of India with focus on nutritional needs of children, pregnant and lactating women. This book delves into the features of the landmark legislation and adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the pertinent issue of food security.
The authors have discussed a wide range of issues, contending that in India food security must be recognised in accordance with the international law which recognises "right to food" as a fundamental right. The book touches upon various concerns of tribal society such as livelihood security, education, health, social, financial and emotional concerns which must be addressed simultaneously in an integrated approach. Entwined with technology, intellectual property laws have surfaced in the recent past. This research endeavour focuses on intellectual property rights in relation to food security and resistance to genetically modified (GM) seeds and crops vis-a-vis the "Gene Revolution" in the country.
This book covers challenges faced by the Public Distribution System and the role of the Indian Railways in the successful implementation of food security laws. It reveals the interface of Indian Railways, the food-grains freight scenario, the operating efficiency and limitations in an attempt to understand and address the formidable challenge of the spatial movement of foodgrains, comparison of rail freight with wholesale price index, cascading effect on general price level and global positioning of foodgrains.
This book will prove immensely useful to students, academicians, researchers and policymakers as it provides a unique multidisciplinary approach to the issue of food security.
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Contents
1.    Towards Justiciable Right t Food
2.    A Study on Agribusiness Through Microfinance
3.    Efficacius Public Distribution System and its Impact on Food Security
4.    Genetically Modified Seeds and Environmental Risks
5.    Guaranteeing Food Security : A Holistic Approach
6.    Linkages Between Food Security, Nutrition and Millennium Development Goals:
       Issues, Concerns and Way Forward
7.    National Food Security on the Shoulders of Indian Railways
8.    Placing Food Security in the Context of Livelihood Security in Fragile Tribal Environment
9.    Right to Food vis-a-vis Intellectual Property Regime
10.  Right to food : End Hunger by Law
Appendix I
The National Food Security Act, 2013
Appendix II
People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India
PUCL (PDS Matters) v. Union of India
Khosa v, Minister of social Development
Kishen Pattnayak v. State of Orissa
Harit Recyclers Assn. v. Union of India
Emergent Genetics India (P) Ltd. v. Shailendra Shivam
Subject Index
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