@vbathreya
writes "The work of MSS on food security evolved over a long period. In the 1950s & 60s, he paid primary attention to the availability dimension of food security, which was also critical to the question of national sovereignty and security."
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"In the 1970s and 1980s, the dimension of access to food for all took centre stage, especially with the emergence of a focus in policy on anti-poverty programmes in which food grain played a direct role."
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"For example, the Government of India announced a food-for work programme (FWP) in 1977-78, a precursor to today’s employment programmes."
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"Later… MSS drew attention to the dimension of absorption or biological utilisation of food, a dimension that was critically dependent on the availability of safe drinking water, sanitation, and primary health care -- and on primary education."
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"MSS thus played an important role in the evolution of the notion of food security from the single dimension of food availability to a concept that included all different dimensions of food security.
They include : (contd.)"
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-the supply of food in the country,critical both for national sovereignty & ending hunger;
-access to food for all through appropriate govt interventions(such as the public food distribution system,interventions such as food-for-work schemes & a focus on employment creation);
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-"and the absorption of food consumed (by ensuring the availability of safe drinking water, sanitation, and primary health care)."
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