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The essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of food security in a developing country like India, which is house for a large number of poor people living with hunger and malnutrition. Written over a period of more than two decades since the 1990s, these essays examine the macro level food security of India in terms of the long-term log linear trends in the minimum requirement of 2100 calories in urban areas and 2400 calories in rural areas, as recommended long ago by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Some of the notable features of this collection, inter alia, include: (1) The contribution of the Green Revolution, despite enabling India to escape from the demeaning “ship to mouth” existence under the PL-480 trappings could not sustain for long because of the absence of state support to improve research and technology, even though the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the largest institution of its kind anywhere in the world, is working under the Government of India.