Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlements and Capabilities

by Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bill Pritchard, Anu Rammohan, et al.

Book Overview

Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security.

This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security problem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415529670
• ISBN13: 9780415529679
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"