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Newspapers come replete with news of starvation deaths while stocks go waste in government storage houses. Food scarcity in India is a more a human-made problem that one brought upon by nature's vagaries. Public distribution system, food and grain prices, gender-related problems and sheer poverty combine to have a debilitating effect on India's public health. In a country where some states still remain food deficit

Publication Date: 
Saturday, September 29, 2001
Down to Earth [2]
Volume No: 
10
Issue No: 
20010930
Tags:
Environment [3], Starvation [4], Food Storage [5], India [6], Food Security [7], Agriculture [8]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/environment
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/starvation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-storage
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture