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Excluding the Needy: The Public Provisioning of Food in India

Swaminathan, Madhura·2002·Social Scientist
DOI 10.2307/3518075
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It is a great honour and privilege for me to deliver the Eleventh Daniel Thorner Memorial Lecture. Since my first introduction to economics as an undergraduate, the writings of Daniel Thorner have been a source of insight and inspiration as has been his life-long vision of progressive democratic social change. At the very outset, I would like to state that I have chosen to focus on the distribution aspects of food security in the lecture, and as result, certain very important and relevant issues relating to the new world trade order and its implications for food security are overlooked. I will make my presentation in the form of 12 propositions on food security. I want to begin by affirming that the provision of secure access to food still remains a relevant and critical issue for public policy in India. The Rome Declaration on World Food Security defines access to food as physical and economic access, at all times, to sufficient, safe and nutritious food (for people) to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. In other words, food security requires access to adequate quantity and satisfactory quality of food. As a country, we have failed miserably in ensuring access to food to all our people. Let me give a few illustrations of the scale of chronic hunger and nutritional deprivation in India. According to the latest National Family Health Survey, conducted in 1998-99, at the all India level:

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  • As a result of centralized poverty assessments, allocation of foodgrains to Kerala was reduced to an amount lower than 10 percent of the pre-targeting supply.

    “As a result of centralized poverty assessments, allocation of foodgrains to the state was reduced to an amount lower than 10 percent of the pre-targeting supply (Swaminathan 2002:51).”

    From Biometric Infrastructures and the Indian Public Distribution System (2020) · cites this paper as Swaminathan 2002:51

  • Before 1997, Kerala was recognized as operating the best state-level PDS in India.

    “Before 1997, Kerala was recognized as operating the best state-level PDS in India (Swaminathan 2002).”

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Authors
Swaminathan, M.
Corresponding author
Swaminathan, Madhura
Venue
Social Scientist
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
2002-03
Volume
30
Issue
3/4
Pages
34
ISSN
0970-0293 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/3518075
OpenAlex
W2395501158
Cited by
27
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
FWCI
10.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Social Scientist (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Security and Socioeconomic Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Economics and Practices
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Economic Development in India
Keywords
food security, food access, chronic hunger, nutritional deficiency, food distribution, public policy, India

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