Summary
Food and nutrition security are the basic requirements for human resource development. By food and nutrition security, physical and economic access of food and nutrition to all sections of the society is meant. Food and nutrition security is integral to livelihood security in terms of capabilities, assets and activities required for living. Thus, food security is a priority concept in developmental economy. Post-Smithian studies on supply-side approach present a uni-causal explanation for food insecurity and delve deep into the analysis of various causes, which lead to deficiency in food supply, where as, 'economic access' is the phenomenon of the 1980s, largely resulting from the pioneering work of Amartya Sen on food entitlements. It is in the silhouette of this issue, an attempt is made to operationalise the prime determinants of food security at the household level so that household vulnerability to entitlement behaviour is substantially reduced.
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Household Entitlements and Food Security: Sen's Approach - a Reality
1. Introduction
Food and nutrition security are the basic requirements for human resource development. By food and nutrition security, physical and economic access of food and nutrition to all sections of the society is meant. Food and nutrition security is integral to livelihood security in terms of capabilities, assets and activities required for living (Chambers and Conway, 1992). In practical and ramifactory terms, sustainable economic growth is possible only with sustainable human development, which, in turn is dependent on food and nutrition security.While sufficiency of food is of prime concern to prevent social tension, nutrition security is equally important to foster a healthy population. Investing in nutrition makes good economic sense because it reduces health care costs and reduces the burden of non-communicable diseases (Scrimshaw, 1997) and improves productivity and economic growth (Soman, 1992) and promotes education, intellectual capacity and social development. No other economic analysis, except food security analysis, can fully encompass the benefits of sustained mental and physical development from childhood into adult life. Thus, food security is a priority concept in developmental economy.2. Problem FocusThe roots of concern with food security can be traced back to the Universal Declaration of Hu...See the full content of this document
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