Screen LibraryFeeding India : livelihoods, entitlements and capabilities /
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; |
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Earthscan ; Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon : London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-187) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780415529662 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0415529662 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9780415529679 (paperback : alkaline paper) 0415529670 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HD9016 |
| CLC: |
F135.16 F335.1 TS201.6-135.1 |
| Call Number: | TS201.6-135.1/P961 |
| Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- The Indian food security enigma -- Interpreting the Indian food security enigma (i): rights, freedoms and capabilities -- Interpreting the Indian food security enigma (ii): sustainable livelihoods -- From calories to capabilities: the concept of food security defined -- The way forward: navigating the remainder of this book -- 2.The dynamics of under-nutrition in India -- Introduction -- India and the Millennium Development Goals on Hunger -- Who is hungry and where? The social, economic and spatial manifestations of under-nutrition in India -- How worried should we be about under-nutrition in India? -- Conclusion -- 3.Holding out the begging bowl no more: India as food self-sufficient but food insecure -- Introduction -- The Green Revolution -- The effects of the Green Revolution on poverty and inequality -- The Green Revolution and the spatial reorganisation of India's food economy -- The Green Revolution and the environment -- Contents note continued: After the Green Revolution: the tapering of productivity growth and agro-technological choices -- Conclusion -- 4.Food security through agriculture-based livelihood strategies -- Introduction -- The effects of a declining size of agricultural holdings -- Technological treadmills and environmental stress -- Class bias in high-value, new agricultural opportunities -- Contradictions in India's agricultural political economy -- Conclusion -- 5.Food security through the non-agricultural economy -- Introduction -- The agency of India's rural poor to construct sustainable non-farm livelihoods -- The structural constraints of economy and employment in contemporary India -- The connection between non-agricultural livelihoods and food insecurity -- Conclusion -- 6.Food security through social safety net programs -- Introduction -- India's food-based social safety net system -- Who should be included in food-based social safety nets? -- Conclusion -- Contents note continued: 7.India's brave new world of food security policy: e-governance and cash transfers -- Introduction -- E-governance: digitising the right to food -- Cash transfers -- International evidence on food policy cash transfers: what can Indian policymakers learn from Brazil? -- Conclusion -- 8.Conclusion -- Revisiting the Indian food security enigma -- ... into the future -- Final words. |