Food Security in India - Test Papers

 CBSE TEST PAPER-01

Class –IX Social Science (Food Security in India)

General Instruction: -

  • All Question are Compulsory.
  • Question No. 1 to 4 Carry one marks each.
  • Question No. 5 to 10 carry three marks each.
  • Question No. 11 to 12 carry five marks each.
  1. What does the food security imply?
  2. What was the production of rice in the province of Bengal in the year 1939?
  3. Who released a special stamp entitled ‘wheat Revolution’ in July 1968?
  4. Name the three sections of the society that are more prone to food insecurity.
  5. What was the declaration of World Earth Summit of 1995?
  6. How is food security affected during a calamity?
  7. Explain the adverse impact upon supply of food grains during a disaster. Write any three points.
  8. What do you mean by food security?
  9. Why do we need food security?
  10. Write a short note on famine.
  11. How is food security ensured in India?
  12. Write a short not on seasonal hunger.

CBSE TEST PAPER-01
Class –IX Social Science (Food Security in India)
[ANSWERS]

  1. The food security implies availability, accessibility and affordability of food for all.
  2. 85 Lakh tonnes
  3. Indra Gandhi
  4. SCs, STs and OBCs sections
  5. The 1995 World Food Summit declared, “Food security at the individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. The declaration further recognized that ‘poverty eradication is essential to improve access to food.
    1. Calamity means disasters like earthquake, drought, flood, tsunami, widespread failure of crops causing famines.
    2. Due to natural calamity, say drought, total production of food grains decreases. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas.
    3. Due to a shortage of, the prices go up. At the high prices, some people cannot afford to buy food. If such calamity happens in a very long time period, it may cause a situation of starvation.
    4. A massive starvation might take a turn of famine.
    1. Due to natural calamity, say drought, total production of food grains decreases. It creates a shortage of food in the affected areas.
    2. Due to a shortage of, the prices go up. At the high prices, some people cannot afford to buy food.
    3. If such calamity happens in a very long time period, it may cause a situation of starvation. A massive starvation might take a turn of famine
    1. The poorest section of the society might be food insecure most of the times while persons above the poverty line might also be food insecure during natural calamities.
    2. During natural calamities like drought, earth quake, flood, tsunami etc, total production of food grains decreases and we need food during such type of hazards.
    3. It creates a shortage of food and the prices go up. At high prices, some people cannot afford to buy food.
    4. High population growth and unequal production of food grains also led to food insecurity.
    5. One of the major reason for which we need food security is the corrupt administrative practice, hoarding and black marketing.
  9. We need food security today, more than ever before, because of the reasons detailed below.
    1. Food and shelter are basic necessities of life; a democratic form of governance must take care of these needs.
    2. We are a country of abundant food production.
    3. The benefits of our economic progress should enable us to feed all our citizens.
    4. Our future generation, namely the children, should get appropriate nutrition to grow up into healthy individuals, which would serve the country well. 
    1. A famine is a situation characterised by widespread deaths due to starvation and spread of epidemics.
    2. Such a situation arises when people are compelled to consume contaminated water and decaying food due to an extreme shortage of food.
    3. Famine conditions may be worsened due to natural climate changes or by extreme political conditions such as military government or dictatorship or war-like situations.
    4. Famines make a deep impact on a country or a region or area. Large scale deaths may occur due to famine.
  11. Food security ensured in India when the  three dimensions take care of food security:
    1. Availability of food- It means the overall food production in the country, stocks from previous years and imports should be sufficient enough to meet the requirements.
    2. Accessibility of food- It means that food should be within the reach of every person. There should be no barrier to access to food. It is linked to the supply chain or distribution system of food to ensure its accessibility in markets.
    3. Affordability of food- It means that individuals have adequate resources to buy sufficient, nutritious and safe food for their requirements. It is linked to food prices as well as individual incomes.
    4. The poorest section of the society might be food insecure most of the times while persons above the poverty line might also be food insecure during natural calamities.
    5. During natural calamities like drought, earth quake, flood, tsunami etc, total production of food grains decreases and we need food during such type of hazards.
    6. It creates a shortage of food and the prices go up. At high prices, some people cannot afford to buy food.
    7. High population growth and unequal production of food grains also led to food insecurity.
    8. One of the major reason for which we need food security is the corrupt administrative practice, hoarding and black marketing.
    1. Seasonal hunger is a chronic, slow, persistent, insidious condition that affects generations of people in a geographic region. Unlike famine, this hunger is a cycle of quiet and predictable starvation.
    2. About 75% of undernourished people live in low-income rural areas of developing countries, principally in farming areas.
    3. Here, chronic hunger usually occurs between harvest seasons, when the previous year’s food stocks have dwindled, food prices are high, and income is scarce.
    4. This type of hunger is prevalent in rural areas because of the seasonal nature of agricultural activities and in urban areas because of the casual labour.
    5. This type of hunger exists when a person is unable to get work for the entire year.
    6. The percentage of seasonal hunger has declined in India from 16.2% in 1983 to 2.6% in 1999-2000 in rural areas.