Food security is one of the twenty-first centuryâs key global challenges and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the worldâs 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 Indiaâs chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human development in India precisely because the interfaces between these aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately understood in policy-making communities. Only through an integrative approach spanning the social and environmental sciences are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required informed by the FAOâs conception of food security as encompassing availability (production) access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional content) as well as by Amartya Senâs notions of entitlements and capabilities. . Language: English