Food Security in India Class 9 Notes Economics Chapter 4March 14, 2017 by Sastry CBSECBSE NotesCBSE Notes Social ScienceNCERT Solutions Social ScienceFood Security in India Class 9 Notes Social Science Economics Chapter 4 SST Pdf free download is PART of Class 9 Social Science Notes for Quick Revision. Here we have given Food Security in India Class 9 Economics Chapter 4 Notes.Food Security in India Class 9 Notes Social Science Economics Chapter 4Food security refers to availability, accessibility and affordability of food to all people at all times. Food security depends, on the Public Distribution System (PDS) and government vigilance and time to time action, when this security is threatened.Meaning Of Food SecurityFood security means availability of adequate supply of basic foodstuffs at all times.The 1995 World Food Summit declared, “Food security at the individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. The declaration further recognises that “poverty eradication is essential to improve access to food”.Food security has the following dimensionsAvailability of Food It means food production within the country, food IMPORTS and the previous years stock stored in government granaries.Accessibility of Food It means food is within reach of every person.Affordability of Food It implies that an individual has enough money to buy sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet one’s dietary needs.The above dimensions conclude that food security is ensured in a country only if * Enough food is available for all the persons.All persons have the capacity to buy food of acceptable quality.There is no barrier on access to food.Necessity Of Food SecurityFood security is needed in a country to ensure food at all times. It is needed to ensure that no person in a country dies of hunger.Effect of Natural Calamity on Food SecurityMost of the time, the poorest section of society might be food insecure. But persons above the poverty line might also be food insecure when the country faces a national disaster/calamity like earthquake, drought, flood, tsunami, widespread failure of crops causing famine, etc.- The total production of foodgrains decreases due to a natural calamity. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas. The price of the food products goes up due to this shortage. At high prices, some people cannot afford to buy food. If such calamity happens in a very wide area or is stretched over a longer time period, it may cause a SITUATION of starvation. Massive starvation might take a turn of famine. Thus, natural calamity affects food security adversely. Famine and StarvationA famine is characterised by widespread deaths due to starvation and epidemics caused by forced use of impure water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to WEAKENING from starvation.The most devastating famine in India was the famine of Bengal in 1943. Thirty lakh people died in it. The price of rice, the staple diet of the people in the region, increased sharply. People Affected by FamineNo famine has occurred in India since independence. But today also, there are places like Kalahandi and Kashipur in Odisha where famine-like condition still prevails. Starvation deaths are also REPORTED in Baran district of Rajasthan, Palamau in Jharkhand and man^ other remote areas.Food Insecure PeopleFood and nutrition insecurity has affected the large section in India. But the most affected people in the rural areas are landless agricultural labourers, traditional artisans and petty self-employed workers. In urban areas the most affected are beggars and homeles people, casual labourers people employed in ill-paid occupations and construction migrant and other seasonal workers. Further, many pregnant and nursing mothers and also children under the age of 5 years are food insecure people. The second National Health and Family Survey (NHFS) conducted during 1998-99. estimated that approximately 11 crore women and children in India are food insecure.Food Insecure RegionsEconomically backward states with high level of poverty, tribal and remote areas, regions more prone to natural disasters (like Eastern and South-eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, West