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Food Security and Peoples' Mid-term Appraisal of 11th plan
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Hindi
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Theme:
Poverty and Livelihood-->Agriculture
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Format:
Interview
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Expert:
Devinder Sharma, Dr. Suman Sahai (Gene Campaign)
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Participant:
Sarita and Mahipal
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Synopsis :
This episode highlights various problems faced by the people of India due to increase in food price and lack of good harvest. Food Security is not just a poverty issue, it is a much larger issue that involves the whole food system and affects every one of us in some way or the other. Among other things, Devinder Sharma talked of Futures’ trading as a factor to rising food prices and Dr. Suman Sahai said that BT brinjal and GM crops are not the ways to ensure food security.
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