The Hungry Nation: Food Policy and Food Politics in India

Millets for Food and Nutrition Security in India: Determinants and Policy Implications

Background: Food security has been a target in India since its independence; the primary aim of food security is to ensure enough staple food for the entire population. Although substantial progress was made through the adoption of green revolution (GR) technologies and implementation of the food public distribution system (PDS), desirable food and nutrition security, as defined by the food and...

Addicted to Food, Hungry for Drugs

There is a growing consensus among neuroscientists that people can become addicted to food, and that at least some cases of obesity have addiction as their cause. By contrast, the rest of the world continues to see obesity as either a disease of the metabolism, or as a reckless case of self-harm. Among obesity researchers, there has been a lively debate on the issue of whether obesity ought to ...

When Healthy Food Makes You Hungry

Do subtle cues for imposed healthy eating make consumers hungry? Imposedhealthy eating signals that the health goal was sufficiently met, and thus it increases the strength of the conflicting motive to fulfill one’s appetite. Accordingly, consumers asked to sample an item framed as healthy later reported being hungrier and consumed more food than those who sampled the same item framed as tasty ...

Food, Law and Politics in India the Political Economy of the Essential Commodities Act

If there is one issue prominent these days in (political) economy and economic policy, it is the relation between state and market. Liberal neo-classical economists such as the Nobel prize winner James Buchanan or Deepak Lal have certainly succeeded in taking the lead in this debate. Their ideas on liberalisation and deregulation have influenced economic policy in many countries now, although t...

Food and Nutrition in India