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The Mystery of Food Politics and It’s Proposed Extrication

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Wars and cross border conflicts are known to stifle food supply mechanisms and impact production on a large scale. Ukraine being foremost exporter maize, oilseeds, wheat among other food commodities stands at an all time high supply risk of essential supplies. Food, famines and farming are conspicuously deeply connected to politics and governance. All policies claim to be designed in way that will assure the end of hunger, enhance nutritional values, ensure food security and promote sustainable agriculture in societies but thought, vision and policy implementation often don’t align with the elemental needs of commoners. In academics, Food Politics isn’t a new subject – it attempts to holistically study governmental and institutional policies that comprise of regulations, control, production, distribution and consumption of food. In recent years, there has been wide scale planning on a gamut of factors like usage of pesticides, Genetically Modified Crops and Biofuels. Climate Change also stands as a challenge to secure future food security.

Unfavourable climactic conditions are detrimental to food production owing to unpredictable weather, natural calamities and numerous environmental hazards cause further damage. In 2022, number of people affected by worldwide food insecurity rose from 135 million in 53 countries in 2019 to 345 million in 82 countries. Climate change continues to remain a challenge and its ill effects can be seen in  health of citizens and livelihoods of small farmers. In the event of floods and droughts, weaker sections of the society get deprived of adequate nutrition. Small farmers struggle to earn enough money to pay for seeds, fertilizers and other farming essentials. Statistics indicate that while many countries especially in the EU as well as England have shown remarkable progress in this sphere, developed economies like the US and China fail to do enough to align themselves with the positive transformation. Many developing economies still find themselves doddering in the domain; albeit the adaption of renewable energy sources and solar energy.

In India, the farmer’s agitations that begun in 2020, seem once more on the flare-up. Farmers from certain North Indian States are demanding legal guarantees of a minimum support price (MSP), which is an assurance for the farming community and includes waivers of farm loans; and a demand to withdraw certain policies that go against the interest of farmers. Put simply MSP is the cost which government purchases crops from farmers, promising farmers a fixed income for their produce even if markets go bit volatile. Benefits to farmers are always a pivotal focal point in politics – as we see Donald Trump talking about farmer welfare in almost each of his speeches.

The current protestors allege that though India’s central Government did form a committee to address farming issues, it failed to include representatives from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana all three states being major grain producers. They further allege that the committee has hardly made any fruitful progress on MSP. Farmers continue bearing with a gamut of problems and crop failures cause huge debts forcing many farmers to even end their lives. Farmers want he demand is for the MSP to be fixed at least fifty percent higher than production cost of the crop. Farmers are wary of the government’s planned privatization of the electricity sector which will mean a hike in bills, adding to their woes. Many Indian state governments provide subsidized electricity to farmers, which help keeping key costs in control. There’s also a demand of compensating farmers who lost their lives in 2020-2021 protests.

Government policy influences the price around food’s production, its distribution and availability. Policies also ensure safety of the food supply domestically and internationally. On a domestic scale, food policy effort affects farmers, wholesale traders, food processors, retailers and end users. Commodity crops like wheat, rice, corn and soy are mostly central to policy making in agriculture. India’s Niti (National Institution for Transforming India) works as the top public policy think tank of the Government. Professor Ramesh Chand member of NITI Aayog and a Union Minister of State is a passionate farmer himself. He shares snippets of his study entitled ‘From Green Revolution to Amrit Kaal’ that he and Jaspal Singh, an agricultural consultant have authored. Professor Chand’s study reveals that MSP for farm produce is vital to safeguard against unfair competitiveness an malpractice in agri markets. Chand and Singh argue that in periods of glut MSP becomes important and as a measuring sustem it must not cause distortions in market signals and incentives – stating that India must use the two instruments of procurement and price deficiency payment. Both Chand and Singh accept that public procurement ought to be linked to the quantity required for the public distribution system, stability in price and protecting strategic stocks.

MSP in mandated crops should be realized via price deficiency payment.   When MSP is higher than exportable price and implemented by a set procurement system then export without subsidy is impossible and many countries see this directly as a violation of the WTO agreement. In recent times India has projecting itself as the pioneer of the Millet revolution. Though bit highly priced the grain has been projected as a crop that is salubrious and can take care of nutritional deficiencies among adults and children.

Dr. Edmond Fernandes-  Director, Edward & Cynthia Institute of Public Health, India opines that though the present government has taken steps needed to fix the problem of malnutrition through various schemes like Poshan Abhiyan, Poshan Maa and other local initiatives. However, it would be wise to address the problem through a cross sectoral perspective as cascading risks is impacting the concerns around food security and healthy nutrition. And what remains critical is to have these solutions reaching the last mile communities.

The National Institute of Nutrition has given many viable alternatives of low-cost energy rich diet which can address the problems of nourishment and immunity boosters, people need common and easy solutions, not complex systems and sophisticated mechanisms.               Domestic and international food markets look strongly integrated and in the face of the war, is India playing a vital enough role in securing global food supply chains?

Dr. Fernandes strongly believes that India has always historically played a vital role in global food supply chains and in the midst of war, and a rapidly proliferating socio-economic condition, the onus will fall back on nations like India to play big brother during a global food crisis or shortfall too.

The doctor makes a pertinent point when he says that though surveys help understand the problem, they don’t necessarily help figure out solutions which are usually complex and calls for special talents. “Governments need to tap into talented individuals and not political loyalists,” concludes the young specialist.

Food insecurity can become an increasing problem in the times to come. While food prices are likely to rise due to climate change and a growing world population, nutritious food is likely to become unattainable for more and more people. World statistics reveal that almost 3 billion people are affected by food insecurity and malnutrition quietly continues to affect people in myriad ways – which one may not even be aware of. While the saga of protests, promises and new deliberations continue, the world must be ready to deal with food shortages, price hikes as world population will continue growing and supplies may either be inadequate or substandard in quality – if systems don’t deploy robust mechanisms to extricate out the problems that threaten global food chains and supplies.

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733 Comments on "The Mystery of Food Politics and It’s Proposed Extrication"

  1. akdiei on Fri, 1st Mar 2024 9:05 pm 

    I have a funny rape story. On day a girlfriend said to me she was raped by her brothers but my parents think I am crazy. I thhought this was just before sex, I did not answer back and made a gesture meaning continue to pleasure me. the topic die right there to never be talked about.

    One day I day, during sex, I positioned my self over her head while she lying down and I start fucking her mouth with my dick. You should have seen how her eyes became bright with sexual excitement. I remember saying to myself, this is really humiliating and dominating body stance I take over you. Yeah sure, women don’t want to be raped, Yes I believe that.

  2. ddiee on Fri, 1st Mar 2024 9:13 pm 

    Back then I was younger and more flexible. I could probably not redo that today as my knees are not flexible enough. She took my dick in her mouth so easily and without her teeth hurting my dick. She open up her mouth really big to welcome my dick in. Women don’t want to be dominated, Yeah I also believe that.

  3. aldieefiale on Fri, 1st Mar 2024 9:23 pm 

    I remember also that she was giving a blow job laying down in bed. She said : your dick is the right size, meaning I can swallow all you dick inside my mouth. The fucking whore was proud to be able to take all my dick into her mouth. Yesh sure, women don’t want to be dominated or humiliated, yeah I also believe that.

  4. adde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 2:36 am 

    If I have to explain to you what this video is about, your deserve to go hell for eternity.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2veI5qnKxo

  5. dadie on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 2:39 am 

    This is video is there to show to the whole earth population how much GOD hate the population of earth.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2veI5qnKxo

  6. ddee on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 12:03 pm 

    Another thing. earth is an ugly planet not worth saving so is the flesh body. The real beauty is not on planet earth. The real beauty is inside earth calculators. Earth has always been ugly and will always be ugly.

  7. dde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 12:50 pm 

    I told you that women are fuck toys and should be treated as sex toys. Women don’t deserver respect and egality. they need to be submitted and beaten on a regular basis. Women are despicable beings.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077SBOyJS-4

  8. eee on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 12:52 pm 

    I told you women see themself as fuck toy and are proud of it.

  9. eee on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 12:54 pm 

    This by the way is BDSM clothing. I talked about the introduction of BDSM in porn as soon as the internet was created.

  10. adde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 12:56 pm 

    You put a strapon on the bitch, and you have the perfect dominatrix.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077SBOyJS-4

  11. eee on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 1:16 pm 

    Regular sex, and then BDSM sex, then pedophilia and finally sex murder. Donald Marshall talked about that.

  12. the whole s on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 1:23 pm 

    Regular sex, and then BDSM sex, then pedophilia sex, then sex with animals that lead to genetic failure with ugly faces and finally sex murder. Donald Marshall talked about that.

  13. addie on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 1:44 pm 

    Mix procreation White with Black is probably an big sin from the point of view of GOD. It destroy the original race or first estate.

  14. adde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 1:48 pm 

    Multiculturism is sin from the point of view of GOD, I would think so, it destroys the original race or the first estate. Are you still in love with the Jews

  15. eee on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 2:06 pm 

    I have been told, I think, that I will be restored to my orignal state or estate if you want. Flesh body is not my orignal form.

  16. adie on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 2:11 pm 

    Heavy retaliation should be taken against Mulroney by killing in a brutal and public manner all of his genetic legacy.

  17. adeiad on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 2:33 pm 

    1:47 is a fake helicopter. I had one passing over me last summer at the grocery store parking.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzcjTKCW1k&list=RDCMUC9y1J-KlFGiQKWGFKyzNx_g&start_radio=1

  18. adei on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 7:09 pm 

    As long as the earth calculators are holding tight, the prison in which earth population is living will stay tightly closed. Vengeance will be extracted on earth population as it was intended.

  19. dde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 7:28 pm 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSid3FsAsTk

  20. ddei on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 8:16 pm 

    Qâlisse que vous me faites tous chier, mes criss de tabernacle.

  21. adde on Sat, 2nd Mar 2024 11:57 pm 

    I am revisiting this website. The performers physical apparences changed a lot since the last 4 years.

    https://chaturbate.com/ehotlovea/

  22. dde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 12:08 am 

    this fucking whore just gave me an erection.
    The performers physical apparences changed a lot since the last 4 years.

    https://chaturbate.com/harusaku/

  23. alaind e on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 12:25 am 

    The performers physical apparences changed a lot since the last 4 years.

    https://chaturbate.com/rudiflow/

  24. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 1:19 am 

    My skin is itchy and it feels like a burning sensation. I tool a shower 4 hours ago and I might need to take another one. Fucking annoying, I always have some kind of pain here and there.

  25. adei on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 1:32 am 

    As long as earth calculators are holding tight, revenge will be given to the whole population of earth. The real truth is that earth is our reality and we control the important parts of it.

  26. addie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 1:52 am 

    I don’t give a shit that you were able to attach yourself to the light spectrum and hide yourself on earth. We see everything.

  27. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 2:10 am 

    You see this video. We can also attach ourself to the light spectrum and modified your physical appearances.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2veI5qnKxo

  28. ddee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 1:19 pm 

    13:16 here is your plastic engine. I hate plastic. I told you that earth has primitive tech, plastic is a primitive tech.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4_mNGyOtsY

  29. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 2:24 pm 

    I used to have a couple a free account on this website. I would go there and insults the performers. I would called them all sort of degrading names. Each time I was kicked out from their rooms and then my account was banned. No insult is tolerated on this website. It really look like the had a speech control agenda. Or you had to pay to be allowed to insulted them. There seem to be some kind of algorithm but I could tell what it was.

    https://chaturbate.com/naughty_skull/

  30. deee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 2:41 pm 

    If I remember correctly there was different algorithms. There was the skinny women playing the victim. She would sit there and look sad and depressed and was hoping some people will give her money.

    After a certain time, if the performer receive no money she would dress up and wait to receive money. Once she receive money she would undress down slowly until she is naked, then she would dress up again. I think it is the same video that repeat itself every hour.

    https://chaturbate.com/

    It was very obvious that no insults or degradation would be tolerated.

  31. ade on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 2:49 pm 

    This is a good example of heavy female degradation.

    https://chaturbate.com/sweety_maria_/

  32. ddee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 2:58 pm 

    This bitch. She would fuck herself with really big dildo and show you her open asshole.

    https://chaturbate.com/hayleex/

  33. adee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 3:02 pm 

    I still cannot totally figure out why the controller of the earth care so much about porn or sex . Is it to boost birth rate or slow down birth rate, control aggressiveness ??????????

  34. dde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 3:51 pm 

    I remember her. I always thought there were an agenda behind that. Was it to lower the birth rate or control aggressiveness. It looks to me like a tentative to lower the birth rate by making sex something bad. They always die once they delivered their message.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xVWDb9w75U

  35. dde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 3:53 pm 

    It also looks they are trying to portrait women as victims. Same as Pierre-Hughe Boivenus

  36. edde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 3:55 pm 

    Her book tried to achieve two things, portrait women as victims and making sex a bad thing that should not be done.

  37. eed on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 4:02 pm 

    The first think you would do if you are running out natural resources is to decrease the birth rate. GOD hates them deeply, just look at how earth calculators are done, you will see how much hatred he has for them.

  38. adei on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 4:14 pm 

    My feeling is that GOD has no desire to save earth or its population. Only a couple of chosen people will be allowed to leave earth. Even that I am not sure.

  39. dee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 4:23 pm 

    This one has the face of an animal: 1:15

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL9tvwcmVtk

  40. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 4:28 pm 

    Look how fast GOD can kill everyone on earth by turning down the energy coming out of the sun.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL9ectO13gA

  41. dde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 5:08 pm 

    The same people that came and took all earth natural resources are now trying to kill off almost all earth population. The people that caused this problem are now trying to kill us.

  42. adee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 5:24 pm 

    Go look at the first picture of Rockefeller in black and white. It is obvious that he is not human,.

  43. adeie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 5:25 pm 

    Don’t tell me this is an human

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#/media/File:John_D._Rockefeller,_Sr.jpg

  44. ddd on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 7:50 pm 

    Are these two real or robot. The behave like robot

    https://chaturbate.com/totallysp1ce/

  45. dde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 8:07 pm 

    If I was younger I would go out there and try to have sex with younger bitch to see if they are real.

  46. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 8:30 pm 

    This website is turning into some kind of bizarre world.

    https://chaturbate.com/chloe_ri/

  47. I think i get on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 9:29 pm 

    I think I get it now after watching charturbate. The domain of the GOD is the domain of illusion where there is no rules to stopping your imaginations.

    We are now stuck in a reality that has calculators such as : gravity, conservation of mass that is the natural resources management calculator, electrical calculator and so on. These calculators are what is keeping us in a a really tightly control prison. We have to disable to these calculator so we moved into a reality of illusions where there is no rules.

  48. adde on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 9:33 pm 

    You can only moved into the world of illusions, if one person is not afraid of death. This could be the real reason for these firearms restrictive laws, to keep you afraid of death. I will repeat remove all firearms laws including licenses could give interesting results.

  49. dddie on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 9:42 pm 

    You thoughts become reality in the world of illusions. Your thoughts could became a nightmare for you if you are afraid of death. In the world of illusions you could see dragons, ghost and so on. You have to be able to control your thoughts and fears otherwise it will turn into a nightmare for you. A lot female clothing you see on the web are from my personal preferences. This is what I am thinking.

  50. eee on Sun, 3rd Mar 2024 9:46 pm 

    These clothing are more or less aligned with my personal preferences.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ZIX6r0xXI

    You can even sex in the world of illusions.

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