FOOD SECURITY ACT

SHORT - TALK

04/09/2023 2

F OD Security ACT

FOOD SECURITY ACT

• Presented by Dr.S.D.Shekde JR 2

• Guided by DR. V. M.HOLAMBE H.O.D. Assist. Professor

Dept Of Comm. MedicineG.M.C. LATUR Date-22/07/14

Contents

• Definition of bill, act, & law.• Reasons behind requirement of NFSB.• Definition of food security.• Background of FSA.• Contains of NFSA.• States food security programs.• Criticism.• References.

Definitions of Bill, Act, & Law

• A bill is a proposed law under consideration by a legislature.

•  A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. 

• Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an Act or a statute.

• Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition,

•  but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour.

• Definition of law:• The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.

• Everyday 799 million people in developing

countries about 18% of the worlds population go hungery.

• In south Asia one person in four goes hungery.

• In sub saharan africa the share is as high as one in three.

• Globally about 175 million childrens under 5 yrs are estimated to be underweight.

• 243 millions adults are severly malnourished.

• Two billion women and childrens are anemic.

• 250 million children suffer from vit A deficiency.

• Two billion peoples are at risk of from iodine deficiency.

≥30.0, extremely alarming

20-29.9, alarming

10.0-19.9, serious

1.5-9.9, low to moderate hunger

No data Excluded from GHI

GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX 2012

• Indias global hunger index:

1990 1995 2000 2005 2013

India 32.6 27.1 24.8 24.0 21.3

29% of the 872.9 million undernourished people (FAO,2009)

49% of the world’s underweight children (WHO 2009)

34% of the world’s stunted children (WHO 2009)

39 per cent of rural women in the 15 – 49 age group, suffer from

chronic energy deficiency National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3)

Food Insecure GroupsWorst affected group Landless people

Traditional artisans

Homeless, beggars

Family employed in ill-paid occupation

Casual labourers ( seasonal activity+ low wages)

Migrants( natural disaster)

Women's and children

Widespread of crop failure due to drought

Global food security index

• Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 109 countries.

• The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative scoring model, constructed from 28 unique indicators, that measures these drivers of food security across both developing and developed countries.

• The overall goal of the study is to assess which countries are most and least vulnerable to food insecurity through the categories of Affordability, Availability, and Quality and Safety.

Global food losses & food wastage & rotting of food

• Food security is defined as the state in which people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for a healthy and active life.

• The National Food Security Act, 2013 aims to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.

REFERENCES

• J.kishores national health programes of india,11 edition.• www.wikipedia.in/htpp/food security/2013.• Food security in india;performance,challenges

& polices, sep2013, oiwps-vii.• Right of food in india by S.mahendra

dev//.centre for economics &social studies..• http://www.ifpri.org/publication/2013-global-hunger-in

dex.

• http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1683e/i1683e.pdf• www.prsindia.org/theprsblog/?tag=food-security.