Food Security

Q. Match the following dimensions of food security to their respective explanations.

1. Capacity to buy food
2. No barrier to food
3. Enough food for all

Q. When is food security ensured in a country?

1. When all the people are satisfied
2. When enough food is available
3. When there is no barrier to access to food
4. When everyone can afford to buy food

Q. Who added the dimension of access to the definition of food security?

1. Manmohan Singh
2. Adam Smith
3. Amartya Sen
4. Karl Marx

Q. How does India ensure food security in the country? Explain in detail.

Q. When people were quarantined during the COVID pandemic, many organisations changed their menus and arranged the delivery of cheap and nutritious meals at the doorstep. How was food security ensured in this scenario?

1. Availability of food during lockdown
2. Affordability of food when people were earning less
3. Accessibility of food through doorstep delivery when people couldn't travel
4. Reliability on organisations for food during lockdown

Q. Food security can exist even when one of its pillars, availability, affordability, and accessibility, is absent.

1. False
2. True

Q. Mitty and her family go to bed hungry every night. There are many groceries and restaurants in their neighbourhood, but they do not have the money to buy food. Identify the dimension of food security that is missing.

1. Affordability
2. Accessibility
3. Actuality
4. Sustainability

Q. ensures that everyone has the capacity to buy food of acceptable quality.

1. Accessibility
2. Affordability
3. Availability
4. Dependability

Q. Which of the following organisations emphasised the affordability of nutritious food in the World Food Summit in 1995?

1. Ministry of Food Safety
2. Food and Agriculture Organization
3. World Food Programme
4. United Nations