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Volume : III, Issue : V, June - 2013 FOOD SECURITY AT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IN ALIGARH DISTRICT SABA OWAIS AND MENKA DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : India has one of the highest levels of malnutrition in the world and there are
reports of hunger and starvation deaths from different parts of the country.Food are one
of the basic human needs and it is indispensable for survival of life. Food Security
describes a situation in which people don't live in hunger or fear of starvation.
Worldwide around 852 million men, women and children are chronically hunger due to
extreme poverty; while up to 2 billion people lack Food Security intermittently due to
varying degree of poverty. There is little consideration has been taken toward household
Food Security, the present study has been attempted to identify the Food Security at
household level in selected villages of Aligarh District.Inspite of an agriculturally
developed area, Aligarh has about 40 per cent of Food Insecure households are food
insecure, 53.12 per cent are Food secure and remaining 8 per cent of the sampled
households are suffering from severe hunger. Not only single indicator but all the
indicators i.e. food availability, food accessability,food stability and food utilization
together create Food Security in sampled households of selected villages. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : SABA OWAIS AND MENKA, (2013). FOOD SECURITY AT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL IN ALIGARH DISTRICT. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. V, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2453.pdf References : - Ali Mohammad, (1978): 'Situation of Agriculture food and Nutrition in Rural India
- District Census Handbook, Aligarh, Primary Census Abstract Part XIII, B,1961 to 1981.
- District Census, Handbook, 1981.
- Swaminathan M.S.(1996): 'Sustainable Agriculture and a Hunger Free India, Agriculture Situation in India
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