India - Improving Household Food and Nutrition Security : Achievements and the Challenges Ahead, Volume 2. Annexes
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This report focuses on the performance
of, and future challenges for, the Government of
India's primary "direct food and nutrition safety
nets" or food-based transfer programs designed to
alleviate short-term food and nutrition insecurity and
improve caring behavior within households. This study
focuses on the public food distribution system, the
government's buffer stocking operations for foodgrain
price stabilization, food for work programs, the mid-day
meals program, and the integrated child development support
services program. A common denominator of this package of
interventions is that they all provide direct food
assistance to households to mitigate chronic and/or
temporary shortfalls in household food consumption. These
programs merit special attention as they form one of the key
pillars of the government's food and nutrition security
strategy. While there is general agreement that measures
that promote economic growth and the development of a strong
human resource base would have a stronger and more permanent
impact on household food and nutrition security, these
food-baed transfer programs nontheless play a critical role
in enabling the poor and vulnerable households to alleviate
the gap not only in short-term deficiencies in food
consumption due to inadequate incomes, but also to ease the
constraints to the use of selected health and related
nutrition services essential to achieving and maintaining
long-term nutritional well-being.
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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, CEREALS, COMMON MARKET, COMPETITIVENESS, DATES, DEPRESSED PRICES, DOMESTIC MARKET, DRINKING WATER, EMPLOYMENT, ENTITLEMENTS, EQUILIBRIUM, EXCHANGE RATE, EXPENDITURES, FAMINE, FISH, FOOD AID, FOOD AVAILABILITY, FOOD COUPON SYSTEM, FOOD COUPONS, FOOD CROPS, FOOD DISTRIBUTION, FOOD FOR ALL, FOOD FOR WORK, FOOD GRAINS, FOOD IMPORTS, FOOD POLICY, FOOD PRICES, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD STAMP PROGRAMS, FOOD SUBSIDIES, FOOD SUBSIDY, FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION, FOODCROPS, FOODGRAINS, FRUITS, HEALTH PROBLEMS, HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY, INCOME, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME EFFECTS, INDEXATION, INSURANCE, MARKET FORCES, MARKET INTEGRATION, MARKET PRICES, MARKETING, MEAL, NET IMPORTS, OIL, POLICY MAKERS, POPULATION GROWTH, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, POVERTY LINE, PRICE CONTROLS, PRICE INDEX, PRICE POLICY, PRICE SUPPORT, PRODUCERS, PRODUCTIVITY, PURCHASING, PURCHASING POWER, QUOTAS, RATION SHOPS, RETAIL, RETAIL PRICES, RICE, SALES, SPREAD, STOCK MANAGEMENT, STOCKS, SUGAR, SURPLUS, SURPLUSES, TAXATION, TERMS OF TRADE, TRANSACTION COSTS, VEGETABLES, WAGES, WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX FOOD SECURITY, MALNUTRITION, TRANSFER PROGRAMS, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, PRICE STABILIZATION, FOODGRAIN MANAGEMENT, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY, PROGRAM COSTS, MEAL PREPARATION SERVICES, TARGETING, FOOD FOR WORK, DECENTRALIZATION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, REGULATORY CONTROL, FOOD POLICY, WHEAT, RICE, WHEAT TRADE, FOOD AID, BUFFER STOCKS, FOOD CONSUMPTION