Celebrating International Year of Millet 2023: Analysing Sustainable Food Security in India Since Independence to the Amrit Kaal from the Lens of Millets
| Published date | 01 December 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00195561241251382 |
| Author | Pushpa Singh |
| Date | 01 December 2024 |
Celebrating International
Year of Millet 2023:
Analysing Sustainable
Food Security in India
Since Independence to
the Amrit Kaal from
the Lens of Millets
Pushpa Singh1
Abstract
While the world is grappling with adversities caused by climate change, the agri-
cultural sector has been the hardest hit, posing a new set of challenges for food
security. As the developing world is still struggling with rampant poverty and
malnutrition, an alternative framework that could promoteclimate-resilient and
water-saving agricultureemerges as an exigency. In this context, climate-resilient
crops like millets acquire the greatest significance as they are not only sustainable
and low on climate-critical resources like water but also add to the diversity of the
nutritional basket of farmers in rain-fed regions. In this light, the adoption of the
India-sponsored resolution declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets by
the United Nations General Assembly is extremely crucial and needs to be ana-
lysed with reference to its potentiality to ensure sustainable food security in India
in sync with UN Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Food Security.
Given the potential of millets, this article aims to analyse innovative and sustain-
able pathways to agriculture from Indian Independence to Amrit Kaal, in alignment
with goals of productivity enhancement, energy transition and climate action of the
Government of India. It examines the policies and programmes of the government
implemented to achieve the goal of Viksit Bharat (Developed India) during the Amrit
Kaal.
Keywords
Millets, sustainability, women farmers, International Year of Millet 2023, SDGs,
food security, Amrit Kaal
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
70(4) 788–800, 2024
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1 Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Corresponding author:
Pushpa Singh, Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi
110007, India.
E-mail: pushpa.singh@mirandahouse.ac.in
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