India - Improving Household Food and Nutrition Security : Achievements and the Challenges Ahead, Volume 2. Annexes

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2001-06-25
Subjects:	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, DECENTRALIZATION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, REGULATORY CONTROL, WHEAT, WHEAT TRADE, BUFFER STOCKS, FOOD CONSUMPTION,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/06/1490170/india-improving-household-food-nutrition-security-achievements-challenges-ahead-vol-2-2-annexes https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15513
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