ABOUT THE BOOK

Food shortage and rising prices of food commodities have not crept up on us. The life-and-death implications of food insecurity have burst upon the world`s consciousness within the last 18 months (as of June 2008). The book attempts to bring into focus, in a succinct manner, the various facets of the problem and the solutions suggested by government, institutions, scientists and administrators. If understanding of the problem and its ramifications are notched even to a small degree by this book, it will have served its purpose. It is concerned with raising awareness of the impending tragedy and, at the same time stressing the many solutions that have been thrown up.

ABOUT Author

Dr. Avnish Kumar Tiwari, M.SC.(Ag), Kanpur University, Kanpur in 1987 and Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur in 1996. He is working with Centre for Alternate Energy Research, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies. Dr. Tiwari has about 5 years teaching experience at Graduate and Post Graduate levels and 14 years experience in the R&D area of Bio-Energy, Renewable Energy Technology for Rural Development, etc.

Dr. Jeevan Nair holds a doctorate in English from Delhi University. After a brief stint in the Indian Army, he took to journalism and worked at a stretch for 37 years with The Hindustan Times, one of India’s leading newspapers. He has worked as bureau chief in 15 states in India and resigned as principal correspondent. He has won several national and international awards for his reporting and is the author of twenty eight books.