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question_answer1) What does 'Food Security' mean?
question_answer2) On what factors does food security depend on?
question_answer3) Explain the three dimensions of food security.
question_answer4) How is food security ensured in a country?
question_answer5) What kind of people faces food insecurity?
question_answer6) How is food security affected during a calamity?
question_answer7) How does the situation of starvation arise?
question_answer8) How do famines lead to widespread deaths?
question_answer9) Which was the most devastating famine to have occurred in India?
question_answer10) In which areas of India even today famine has caused starvation deaths?
question_answer11) What kind of people in rural areas are food insecure?
question_answer12) What type of people in urban areas are food insecure?
question_answer13) Which other parts of society are prone to food insecurity?
question_answer14) How people affected by natural disasters are food insecure?
question_answer15) Is it true that a high incidence of malnutrition prevails among women?
question_answer16) In which regions are food insecure people disproportionately large in our country?
question_answer17) Which states of India account for the largest number of food insecure people?
question_answer18) Does hungers cause food insecurity?
question_answer19) How does 'chronic hunger' occur?
question_answer20) What do you understand by 'seasonal hunger'?
question_answer21) What policies were adopted by Indian government to remove food insecurity?
question_answer22) How was the success of 'Green Revolution' felicitated by Indira Gandhi?
question_answer23) Which states achieved the highest rate of growth in food grain production during Green Revolution?
question_answer24) Which states continued to lag behind in food production despite Green Revolution?
question_answer25) How did India become self sufficient?
question_answer26) What is buffer stock?
question_answer27) What is Minimum Support Price?
question_answer28) How does FCI purchase grains from the farmers?
question_answer29) Why is buffer stock created by the government?
question_answer30) What is Public Distribution System?
question_answer31) What are Fair Price Shops?
question_answer32) Which families can buy from these Ration Shops?
question_answer33) When was rationing system introduced in India?
question_answer34) When was rationing system revived after Bengal famine?
question_answer35) Which important food intervention programmes were introduced by Indian government after NSSO report?
question_answer36) How do PAPs enhance food security?
question_answer37) What do you know about National Food for Work Programme?
question_answer38) What is RPDS?
question_answer39) What is TPDS?
question_answer40) Which two schemes were linked with the PDS system by the government?
question_answer41) What are the benefits of PDS?
question_answer42) How has Minimum Support Prices supported the farmers?
question_answer43) Why has PDS been facing severe criticism?
question_answer44) What is a 'Subsidy'?
question_answer45) Why is a high level of buffer stock undesirable?
question_answer46) What is the impact of intensive utilisation of water in the cultivation of rice on the environment?
question_answer47) What kind of malpractices are there among PDS dealers?
question_answer48) What is the role of cooperatives in food security?
question_answer49) Give some important cooperatives running successfully.
question_answer50) What is the role of ADS?
question_answer51) What is the contribution of Grain Banks?
question_answer52) What does 'food security' mean? On what factors does food security of a country depend?
question_answer53) What are the dimensions of 'food security'?
question_answer54) Why do we need 'food security'?
question_answer55) How is food security affected during a calamity?
question_answer56) What is a 'famine'? Which states in India are affected by famines?
question_answer57) Who are the most affected food insecure people in India?
question_answer58) How are food insecure people disproportionately large in some regions of the country?
question_answer59) Cite evidences which explain that India is self-sufficient in food grain production.
question_answer60) Why is the Public Distribution System criticised?
question_answer61) What does Antyodaya Anna Yojana mean?
question_answer62) How do PDS dealers resort to malpractices?
question_answer63) How does a calamity affect food security?
question_answer64) How is food security ensured in a country?
question_answer65) In which regions of India, starvation deaths are reported?
question_answer66) What does 'Seasonal Hunger' mean?
question_answer67) Why is the buffer stock created by the government?
question_answer68) What are the three important Food Intervention Programmes?
question_answer69) Why were the FCI granaries overflowing with food grains and how was the situation controlled?
question_answer70) What buffer norms are to be followed by the government?
question_answer71) How does social inability to buy food also play a role in food insecurity?
question_answer72) What is 'hunger'? Differentiate between Chronic and Seasonal hunger.
question_answer73) How did India aim at self-sufficiency in food grains after independence?
question_answer74) What is 'buffer stock'? Why was it created by the government?
question_answer75) What is the Public Distribution System?
question_answer76) What is the 'rationing system'?
question_answer77) What is the current status of the Public Distribution System?
question_answer78) What are some of the important features of the PDS?
question_answer79) What is the role of 'Cooperatives' in food security? Or Write a note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and retained items.
question_answer80) Who are food insecure in India? What is their social composition? How are they scattered over in the country?
question_answer81) What rights provide food security?
question_answer82) How can you help poor people in providing food security?
question_answer83) The accessibility of food means (a) food production within the country (b) an individual has enough money to buy food (c) food is within the reach of every person (d) none of these
question_answer84) Chronic hunger is (a) an expression of poverty (b) a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of quantity and/or quality (c) related to the cycles of food growing (d) when a person is unable to get work for the entire year
question_answer85) The highest food grain growth was achieved in the states of (a) UP and Madhya Pradesh (b) Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (c) Bihar and Tamil Nadu (d) Punjab and Haryana
question_answer86) When was the Integrated Child Development Services introduced on an experimental basis? (a) 1975 (b) 1981 (c) 1973 (d) 1980
question_answer87) Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS) aimed to provide the benefits of PDS to (a) cities (b) self-help groups (c) cooperative societies (d) remote and backward areas
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