 Introduction [In Pulses for nutrition in India: Changing patterns from farm to fork]Devesh Roy, Pramod Kumar Joshi and Raj Chandra Chapter 1 in Pulses for nutrition in India: Changing patterns from farm to fork, 2017, pp 1-20 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: The remainder of this chapter presents some facts that form the background motivation for this book: the production and consumption patterns of India’s pulse sector, the global context of trade in pulses and the position of India therein, the nutritional and environmental characteristics that make pulses a salient crop in meeting human needs, and the different initiatives for the pulses sector taken up by the government of India. Keywords: low income groups; minimum prices; agricultural production; dietary patterns; grain legumes; agricultural policies; inflation; green revolution; vegetarianism; malnutrition; nutrition; famine; agricultural development; food security; food prices; diet; poverty; international trade; feeding preferences; farming systems; climate change; India; Southern Asia; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:ifpric:9780896292567-1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in IFPRI book chapters from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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