Question

Which are the people more prone to food insecurity?

Answer 1

Answer:

The people living below the poverty line might be food insecure all the time while better-off people might also turn food insecure due to calamity or disaster. The social composition, along with the inability to buy food, also plays a role in food insecurity. The SCs, STs and some sections of the OBCs (lower castes among them) who have either poor land-based or very low land productivity are prone to food insecurity. Other than these sections, people hit by a natural disaster are also likely to be food insecure.

Answer 2

Answer:

A large section of people suffer from food and nutrition insecurity in India. However, the worst affected groups are as follows:

• Landless and land-poor households, traditional artisans, providers of traditional services, petty self-employed workers and destitute including beggars (in the rural areas).
• People employed in ill-paid occupations and casual labourers engaged in seasonal activities (in the urban areas).
• People belonging to the backward sections of society, namely SCs, STs and OBCs.
• People belonging to economically-backward states with high incidence of poverty, tribal and remote areas and regions more prone to natural disasters.
• People affected by natural disasters who have to migrate to other areas in search of work.
• Large proportion of pregnant and nursing mothers, and children under the age of 5 years.