Question:
Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
Answer:
Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions.
Chronic Hunger Seasonal Hunger Chronic hunger is a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of quantity and/or quality. Seasonal hunger is related to cycles of food growing and harvesting. Poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their very low income and in turn inability to buy food even for survival. This is prevalent in rural areas because of the seasonal nature of agricultural activities and in urban areas because of the casual labour.
Food Security in India
Q 1.
Name the year when a devastating famine occurred in India.
Q 2.
Why is agriculture a seasonal activity?
Q 3.
What is food security? What conditions should be fulfilled to ensure food security in a country like India?
Q 5.
A section of people in India are still without food. Explain?
Q 6.
List the three A's Food security implies to?
Q 7.
What is buffer stock?
Q 9.
Which states are more food insecure in India?
Q 10.
List the kinds of ration cards available?
Q 11.
What are the dimensions of food security?
Q 12.
Write a note on the role of cooperatives in providing food and related items.
Q 13.
Why is food security essential?
Q 14.
Why is a buffer stock created by the government?
Q 15.
What is Minimum Support Price?
Q 16.
What are the benefits from PDS?
Q 17.
How is food security ensured in India?
Q 18.
What is Public Distribution System (PDS)?
Q 19.
Which two special schemes related to food security were launched in 2000? What were the objective of these schemes?
Q 20.
What is Chronic hunger?
Q 21.
Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?
Q 22.
Describe any three categories of people who are prone to food insecurity.
Q 23.
Define Green Revolution.
Q 24.
Do you believe that green revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains? How?
Q 25.
Define malnutrition.
Q 26.
What are the functions of food corporation of India?
Q 27.
Differentiate between seasonal hunger and chronic hunger?
Q 28.
How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?
Q 29.
Name any six co-operative societies of the country.
Q 30.
What happens to the supply of food when there is a disaster or a calamity?
Q 31.
Describe the achievements of Public Distribution System (PDS).
Q 32.
What changes have been noticed in the Public Distribution System recently?
Q 33.
How is food security affected during a calamity?
Q 34.
What is seasonal hunger?
Q 35.
Write notes on:Minimum Support Price, Buffer Stock, Issue Price and Fair Price Shops.
Q 36.
What has our government done to provide food security to the poor? Discuss any two schemes launched by the government?
