Uma Lele BOOK LAUNCH Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India JUN 6, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT

1. Prabhu Pingali, Anaka Aiyar, Mathew Abraham, Andaleeb Rahman

2. A job well done

3.  India’s space program—Least Cost mission to
Mars
 Member of Club of Advanced Technology
producers
 Manages largest democratic elections fairly
 BUT
 Rapid Growth without Rapid Poverty and
hunger reduction
 Scarcity Within Plenty
 A huge climate change challenge going
forward

4. Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/opinion/heng-indias-budget-mission-to-mars.html
India's Impressive Cost Effective Space Program

5. Source: https://thewire.in/politics/2019-results-modi-coalition-government
India Manages World's Largest Democratic Elections

6.  Differences among states
◦ Lagging—calorie deficit,
◦ agriculturally led –slowing productivity
◦ urbanizing states- growing obesity and food related health
challenge
 Slow Diversification of agricultural production
 Importance of Rural-Rural Migration
 Impacts of Climate Change Needing Stronger Responses
 Creating Rural-Rural-Urban Linkages

7.  Decentralize
 Adopt a More Eclectic Technology Policy-e.g GM crops
 Lagging states—follow a differential approach to
infrastructure, NREGA
 Adopt a Pro-Active Climate policy—
 Promote Private Sector
 Address Land tenure Issues
 Build Farmers organizations
 Gender

8.  Ending Hunger: possible for caloric adequacy but uncertain for access to food
diversity, especially micro-nutrient rich food.
 Ending all forms of Malnutrition: declines in the incidence of child
stunting & wasting, but sharp rise in obesity rates.
 Double Small Farm Productivity: unlikely for the least developed
countries & lagging regions in emerging economies.
 Adaptation to Climate Change: Unlikely for small farms in arid zones & flood
risk areas.
 Sustainable Production Systems: possible where policies are right & where
technology adaptation to smaller scales is possible.
Source: Prabhu Pingali. TAAS Lecture, Delhi

9.  India Needs a comprehensive Agricultural Policy and Implementing
Mechanisms
 Establish an Ag. Council Under the Prime Minister?
 Strengthen Accountable Decentralization—
 Bottom Up and top down Accountability
 Give Niti Aayog Strengthened Role In Allocating Resources
 Source: Vijay Kelkar, India’s Fiscal Decentralization
 Establish Independent Monitoring, Evaluation Office

10. WEF's Global Gender Gap Index
(2018)
Ranked 108 out of 149 countries
UNDP's Gender Inequality Index
(2017)
Ranked 127 out of 160 countries
UNDP's Gender Development
Index (2017)
Ranked 163 out of 179 countries, Group 5
[Countries are divided into five groups by
absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI
values]
The Economist Intelligence Unit's
Women’s Economic Opportunity
Index (2012)
Ranked 98 out of 128 countries
Source: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gap-report-2018, http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GII, http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/GDI, and
https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=weoindex2012
What Needs to Happen? #2 India's Ranking on Gender Indexes
Needs to Improve to Improve Food and Nutrition Security!

11. Source:
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/dynamics-
food-and-nutritional-security-innovations
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