Food security can be achieved only through concurrent attention to food availability, access and absorption. It needs synergy between food and non-food factors – clean drinking water, sanitation, primary healthcare and the purchasing power. The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today and tomorrow. The issues that need to be addressed in combating hunger and achieving food security are highlighted in this book by a great Indian geneticist. The genesis and growth of the yield revolution is traced at the beginning in order to give readers, particularly the younger generation, an understanding of efforts that ushered in the Green Revolution of the 1960s.



The book also discusses major causes of chronic and hidden hunger and emphasizes on the need to redesign the farming system to increase food production. The role of effective monsoon management programme to maximise the benefits is examined. There are chapters that analyse the importance of biodiversity conservation and enhancement and farmer skill development. Important issues to increase agricultural production including investment by financial institutions in agriculture and rural development, women’s role in agriculture and youth employment in rural livelihoods are discussed in great detail in the text. The book concludes that there must be synergy amongst the scientific knowledge, political will and farmers' active participation to achieve the goal of overcoming chronic and hidden hunger in the population of developing countries.

1. Genesis and growth of the yield revolution in wheat
2. Our agricultural heritage
3. Shaping our agricultural destiny
4. Thrust on farm revival
5. Nutri-farm movement
6. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture
7. Food losses and food waste
8. Rice in zero hunger challenge
9. Monsoon management
10. Importance of ecological conservation
11. Caring for ecology and heritage
12. Conserving biodiversity
13. Overcoming hidden hunger through aquaculture
14. Biofuels – The way to go
15. Food security
16. Vigilance for sustainable food security
17. Food security and social protection
18. Food security and its role
19. Sustaining the livestock revolution
20. Challenges in the year of science
21. Agriculture and humanism
22. Fostering the science of science communication
23. Olympic move for saving children
24. Youth: the agents of change
25. Role of women in agricultural production
26. Know-how to do-how
27. From Bengal famine to right to food<
28. Financial institutions and fighting food inflation
29. Public good research in agriculture
30. The future of Indian agriculture
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