Food Security UPSC Questions

The first aspect of food security is the domestic availability of _____.

India has experienced persistent and high food inflation in the recent past. What could be the reasons?
1. Due to a gradual switchover to the cultivation of commercial crops, the area under the cultivation of food grains has steadily decreased in the last years by about 30%.
2. As a consequence of increasing income, the consumption patterns of the people have undergone a significant change.
3. The food supply chain has structural change.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
UPSC - 2011

Which of the following is/are indicator indicators used by IFPRI to compute the Global Hunger Index Report
1. Undernourishment
2. Child stunting
3. Child mortality
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UPSC - 2016

Identify the WRONG statements about India being one of the few countries in the world having government-held stock of food grains.
a) Buffer for meeting natural calamities
b) Price stabilization in case of crop failures
c) Providing food grains under public distribution system

Who has the prime responsibility of procuring the food grains?

With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security through Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies and to demonstrate value-addition techniques,in an integrated manner, with a cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger stake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro-irrigation equipments.
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UPSC - 2016