RECENT COLLECTION

1. SHORT - TALK

2. 8/19/2014 2

3. 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. Medicine
G.M.C. LATUR
Date-22/07/14

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. • 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.

7. • 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.

10. • 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.

11. • 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.

12. ≥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

13. • Indias global hunger index:
1990 1995 2000 2005 2013
India
32.6 27.1 24.8 24.0 21.3

18. Food Insecure Groups
Worst 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

20. 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.

21. • 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.

25. Global food losses & food wastage
& rotting of food

28. • 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.

29. • 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.

64. 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-
index.
• http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1683e/i1683e.pdf
• www.prsindia.org/theprsblog/?tag=food-security.