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Searching with a thematic focus on Social protection food programmes, Food security and social protection, Food security, Food policy in India

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    Looking for answers to the food security problem - India under current compulsions

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    This paper reviews the strategies and instruments in India that address household food insecurity. The paper also examines how far the existing public works programmes (PWP) target the households that are likely to be food insecure. It discusses the changing orientation of strategies towards new and innovative methods, also as institutions for rural governance transform.
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    Enforcing the right to food in India: bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
    If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores why the system in place has been unsuccessful.
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    The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security

    2006
    What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general public, and food security of the poor.In the 1990s both India and China reformed their PDS, but each following a different path.
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    Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par