This academic work is rich with an immensely eclectic content and the variation of the papers in the compendium premised upon food governance in the narrative which lends a very different genre to the Book. The paper on food entitlements based on a Ministry of Law and Justice release and contends pithily that, ‘women above the age of 18 years will be deemed head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration cards’. The author very evocatively talks about the priority households wherein vulnerable groups of the order including disabled, older people, children and poor single women have a right to receive food security funds in order to sustain their lives.
The Book delves inside the idiom of food security under the larger genre of human security which has a direct linkage with sustainability and sustenance finally referring to a fulsome act of development and human progression. The Book delves into the crucial rigmarole of food security, public health equity and global governance. The focus is on India as the work showcases the internecine frames of socio-political, economic and agricultural challenges to culminate into self-sufficiency in food production. more...
