The report first sets the context for a discussion of trade policy interventions in the context of evolving structures of production and trade, stressing the importance of the roles that the agriculture sector can play in countries at different levels of development and the fact that policy interventions will need to reflect these different roles. It then reviews evidence on

The Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar is one of a series of eight Atlases produced by the Institute for Human
Development (IHD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The other states covered in this series are: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The Atlases carry out a
district-level analysis of food security for each of these states.

The basic objective of the National Consumer Policy is the need to ensure that goods, services and technology are available to the consumers at reasonable prices and at acceptable standards of quality.

The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently.

Efforts to promote food security must distinguish between short-term and medium-term measures, but also between countries with agricultural potential and without such potential, argues this paper.