15th October 2022
Mains Question:
Question: India urgently needs to address the significant challenge that climate change poses to its food security. Discuss (150 words)
- Subject: Polity & Governance (GS-II)
- Sub-topic: Issues related to Hunger
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Approach
- Introduction- food security in India
- Impact of climate change on agriculture
- Rising temperatures and weather fluctuations
- Increasing pressure on food security
- decrease in seasonal rainfall and an increase in extreme rainfall events
- Challenges to food security
- Required Intervention
- Close cooperation between agricultural research centres and farmers
- climate-resilient agriculture
- Sum up your answer with a way forward
Editorials
Context:
The role of women's labor is important in all facets of livestock development and also in the livestock economy.
Issues with data collection:
- Lack of reliable data: Labour Survey fails to accurately record the data of women’s work in livestock-raising because of short spells of work and work often done within the homestead.
- Women’s pattern of work: Due to distributed tasks like milking cow; washing shed; feeding animals, etc., the woman herself may not report “livestock rearing” as economic activity.
- Augmented participation work: It is an estimate where women report themselves as “engaged in domestic duty” and also spending time on activities, e.g.: household dairy/poultry, husking, etc.
An underestimation and Policies:
- Data Discrepancy: The employment and Unemployment Survey of 2011-2012, says that ~12 million rural women are engaged in livestock raising but the augmented estimate makes it ~49 million.
- National Livestock Policy (NLP) of 2013: It rightly states that around 70% of the labor for the livestock sector comes from women. One of the goals of this policy is the empowerment of women.
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