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Food, hunger and ethics

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  • Srijit Mishra

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

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Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happen, the state has to come up with an appropriate and effective bill on food and nutrition security, address the issue of inadequate provisioning of storage space by state agencies leading to rotting of foodgrains - a criminal waste when people are dying of hunger, and rely on a bottom-up approach involving the community that complements the top-down administrative structure to identify poor and reduce both exclusion and inclusion errors in targeting.

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  • Srijit Mishra, 2011. "Food, hunger and ethics," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2011-023, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
    • Handle: RePEc:ind:igiwpp:2011-023
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    1. Srijit Mishra, 2011. "Consultation Report on Strengthening the Role of Agriculture for a Nutrition Secure India," Working Papers id:4667, eSocialSciences.

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    Keywords

    Bottom-up; cash transfers; exclusion and inclusion errors; foodgrains; Mahatma Gandhi; nutrition adequacy; poverty; Rawls; right to food; targeting; top-down; unique identification;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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