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100 _aMander
245 0 _aRight to Food Debates, The (Hb)
_c/ Mander
250 _a1st edition
260 _bOrent Blackswan
_c2018
300 _a468p. :21cms
520 _astate food provisioning in India had been regarded as an instrument of social policy since Independence. In 2001, however, following a series of starvation deaths in several states, a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court served as the catalyst for extensive debates regarding the recognition of the right to food as a basic right in India. This process resulted in the passage of the National food security Act in 2013. ≪ em> the right to food debates lays out the principal arguments offered in the years leading up to the final Act by academics, policy make Rs and government officials, and prominent Civil society groups such as the right to food campaign.
650 _aSocial protection and food security
942 _cENGLISH
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