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    Food Security Efforts in SAARC Countries: Dr. Hanumant Yadav

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    The document discusses food security efforts in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. It notes that South Asia houses 40% of the world's poor population and 35% of the world's undernourished. All SAARC countries have made efforts to achieve food security through increasing food production, public distribution systems, and nutrition programs for children. The four pillars of food security identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization are availability, access, utilization, and stability. India in particular has focused on ensuring food security across all pillars through various policy initiatives and programs. While other SAARC countries have also increased production and strengthened distribution systems, more long-term strategies are needed to raise production, strengthen systems, and develop infrastructure

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    The document discusses food security efforts in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. It notes that South Asia houses 40% of the world's poor population and 35% of the world's undernourished. All SAARC countries have made efforts to achieve food security through increasing food production, public distribution systems, and nutrition programs for children. The four pillars of food security identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization are availability, access, utilization, and stability. India in particular has focused on ensuring food security across all pillars through various policy initiatives and programs. While other SAARC countries have also increased production and strengthened distribution systems, more long-term strategies are needed to raise production, strengthen systems, and develop infrastructure

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    The document discusses food security efforts in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. It notes that South Asia houses 40% of the world's poor population and 35% of the world's undernourished. All SAARC countries have made efforts to achieve food security through increasing food production, public distribution systems, and nutrition programs for children. The four pillars of food security identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization are availability, access, utilization, and stability. India in particular has focused on ensuring food security across all pillars through various policy initiatives and programs. While other SAARC countries have also increased production and strengthened distribution systems, more long-term strategies are needed to raise production, strengthen systems, and develop infrastructure

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    Food Security Efforts in SAARC Countries

    Dr. Hanumant Yadav,


    Professor (Economics),
    Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur (CG)
    ABSTRACT
    South Asia with 1616.5 million population houses worlds 40 percent poor population and
    35 percent of worlds undernourished. Therefore the food security is very crucial to South Asian
    countries. Realizing food security as a challenge, all countries of South Asia has made efforts
    achieve food security through increasing food production, initiating PDS, making PDS
    vulnerable by supplying at subsidized rates, linking food with rural employment programs,
    nutritious food to undernourished children, etc. The present paper traces food security of
    SAARC countries at country and also at regional level.
    The FAO identified the four pillars of food security as availability, access, utilization,
    and stabilitiy

    The paper discusses the issue of food security under these heads. . Among
    SAARC countries, India has remained very particular ensuring food security with all its pillars
    availability to its people since the launching of its First FYP in 1951. Its initiative ranges from
    increasing food production to legal initiatives. ICDS and Mid-day Meals Scheme have ensured food
    utilization. Right to Food Act 2013 ensures food availability, excess, utilization and food stability to
    Indian people. India is also extending its expertise and food availability help to other SAARC
    countries also.

    Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Shri Lanka while increasing food production
    also tried to strengthen PDS system making food accessible to poor people. Sri Lanka has also
    introduced food utilization schemes for children. The food production efforts of Afghanistan are
    hampered due to internal disturbances however food availability is ensured by import of wheat
    flour from neighbor countries. SAARC organization has established SAFTA, SAARC Food
    Bank, and Seed Bank. The food security appears to be satisfactory at SAARC level however
    not a single SAARC country appears in first 50 rank of Global Food Security Index.
    Since SAARC Food Bank is a good solution to short term shortages and to meet
    emergency needs hence to ensure food security a long-term strategy is required to raise food
    production, strengthen PDS and food utilization schemes for children and needy mothers.
    Secondly, infrastructure facilities namely irrigation, storage and speedy transport should be
    developed as long term strategy. Thirdly, since tariff and non-tariff barriers are impeding
    agriculture trade, they should be dismantled as a measure to strengthen food security at regional
    level.

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