{"id":202049,"date":"2022-08-26T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=202049"},"modified":"2022-08-27T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T12:05:17","slug":"the-global-threat-to-our-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-global-threat-to-our-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The global threat to our food security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cThe global threat to our food security<\/strong>\u201d published in the Live Mint<\/strong> on 26th<\/sup> August 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus:<\/strong> GS 3 – Food Security<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Threat to Food Security<\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>Recently, data on inflation suggests a softening of the trend of rising inflation in retail prices.<\/p>\n

Much of the inflation this year has been driven by rising food prices, particularly edible oil and more recently cereals, primarily wheat. Data on domestic as well as global production<\/strong> of wheat and rice suggest that the threat to food security isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n

What are the various causes of threat to food security?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Global Level<\/strong><\/h6>\n

At present, the heat waves<\/strong> and droughts<\/strong> have spanned across the world like Europe, China, the US and Brazil. For example, last month\u2019s European drought was declared the worst in five centuries. The heat wave and droughts are threatening the global supply of major cereals and other food crops.<\/p>\n

Due to these extreme weather events, the agricultural output would decline. For example, the latest EU forecast suggests a decline of 16% for maize to 5% for wheat and 8-10% for edible oil. This will lead to global and domestic supply<\/strong> shortages<\/strong> for most farm commodities, and would lead to high food inflation and would lead to a threat to food security across the world.<\/p>\n

Due to war, Ukraine is witnessing lower sowing which will impact the global food supply.<\/p>\n

India level<\/strong><\/p>\n

In India, wheat production has already suffered downward revision<\/strong> due to an untimely heat wave this March.<\/p>\n

The rice situation is also not encouraging because the area under paddy cultivation<\/strong> is less than last year\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The standing paddy crop in major rice-producing states is witnessing a mysterious dwarfing disease.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Rice and Wheat Procurement for this year have been the lowest in the last three years.<\/p>\n

Further, the government\u2019s track record in distribution is no better. There have been irrational attempts at cutting<\/strong> and switching<\/strong> allocations<\/strong> between rice and wheat across states. Therefore, beneficiaries are not lifting foodgrains as part of Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) and the National Food Security Act<\/p>\n

What should be done to avert the threat to food security?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

There is a need for an extension<\/strong> of the PMGKAY. This needs to be supplemented with adequate stocks<\/strong> and restoration of the original allocations<\/strong> and preparation of contingency plan.<\/p>\n

The government must ensure adequate food<\/strong> supply<\/strong> and improve efficiency<\/strong> in distribution.<\/p>\n

In addition, proactive steps<\/strong> are needed to increase the incomes of farmers in our drought and disease-affected states. This can be done with preparation for higher procurement during the kharif season.<\/p>\n

Ensuring food security to the poor will protect<\/strong> them from another impending global food crisis<\/strong> and would also be important for alleviating distress in our rural economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cThe global threat to our food security\u201d published in the Live Mint on 26th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 – Food Security Relevance: Threat to Food Security News: Recently, data on inflation suggests a softening of the trend of rising inflation in retail prices. Much of the… Continue reading The global threat to our food security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10501],"class_list":["post-202049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700804226,"cached_date":1704924830},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}