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How do the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission (2004-2006) ensure food and nutrition security for the Indian masses?

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The National Commission on Farmers, chaired by M. S. Swaminathan, submitted five reports between December 2004 and October 2006 amid agrarian distress and farmer suicides. Its distinctive move was to treat producer and consumer security as one problem: a countryside of impoverished cultivators cannot feed a nation. Sociologically it writes Amartya Sen's entitlement approach into…

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