Tag: food security and nutrition

Questions Related to food security and nutrition

Natural resources have been adversely affected while they are being used for __________.

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  1. production

  2. consumption

  3. both A & B

  4. neither A nor B

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

In the process of production and consumption, natural resources are exploited as a result of various activities that causes many types of pollution which includes air, water and land pollution. Unregulated production and consumption has led to further increase in the degradation of the environment.

______________ refers to an economic activity in which goods and services are bought and sold illegally.

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  1. Black marketing

  2. Hoarding

  3. Monopoly market

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Black market is an intangible market that deals in buying and selling of illegal products without concern of business law. These products are sold at very high prices which are not accounted by the government and transforms into black money. It operate outside the purview and regulation of the government or the judiciary system.

_____________ lead to concentration of economic power in the hands of few, who then try to dominate and influence the economic activities of the nation.

social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

  1. Hoarding

  2. Black marketing

  3. Both A & B

  4. Neither A nor B

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

  • Hoarding in economics refers to maintaining unaccounted stocks of many commodities to save guard oneself from rise in general price level i.e. inflation or to take advantage of increased prices in the future, by creating artificial scarcity.  
  • Black market is an intangible market that deals in buying and selling of illegal products which are sold at very high prices which are not accounted by the government and transforms into black money.        
  • This leads to monopoly of the exploiters who are performing such acts in the economy which is unethical and against human virtue as it creates social and economic instability.  

Environmental deterioration has caused heavy economic losses, all of which can be expressed in monetary terms.

social science food security in india need for nregs rural development and employment guarantee scheme food security and nutrition

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In the process of production and consumption, natural resources are exploited as a result of various activities that causes many types of pollution which includes air, water and land pollution. These losses cannot be measured in terms of money as it includes loss of life and society, and impairs physical and mental growth of the people.

With reference to 'Initiative for Nutritional Security trough Intensive Millets Promotion', which of the following statements is/ are correct?
1. This initiative aims to demonstrate the improved production and post-harvest technologies, and to demonstrate value addition techniques, in a integrated manner, with cluster approach.
2. Poor, small, marginal and tribal farmers have larger strake in this scheme.
3. An important objective of the scheme is to encourage farmers of commercial crops to shift to millet cultivation by offering them free kits of critical inputs of nutrients and micro irrigation equipment.
Select the correct answer using the code given below.

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  1. $1$ only

  2. $2$ and $3$ only

  3. $1$ and $2$ only

  4. $1, 2$ and $3$

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This was launched in $2012$ as part of Rashtriye Krishi Vikas Yojana under which free 'kits' are made available to the farmers (owning upto $2$ hectares farm land).

Consider the statements and select the correct code given below: 

1. Global Hunger Index is released annually by the US-based food research institute IFPRI.
2. IFPRI is funded by governments of the world, private businesses, foundations and the World Bank other than the UNO.

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  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an 'agricultural research centre' and is not funded by the UNO (other funding partners arc correct in Statement 2)

In mid $1840s$, many people died of starvation when potato crop was destroyed due to a particular disease. Name the country associated with the above incident.

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  1. England

  2. America

  3. Ireland

  4. France

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Correct Option: A

The other name of 'ration shop' is _____.

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  1. Public shops

  2. Fair price shops

  3. Basic requirement shops

  4. Grocery shops

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The other name of 'ration shops' is fair price shops which are used by government for distribution of foodgrains under Public Distribution System.

Food production within the country, food imports and the previous year's stock of granaries is called _____.

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  1. Affordability of food

  2. Accessability of food

  3. Availability of food

  4. Stock of food

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Availability of food- It means food production within the country, food imports and the previous year's stock of granaries.

Antyodaya cards are the ration cards for the _____.

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  1. Poorest of the poor

  2. People above the poverty line

  3. People below the poverty line

  4. People at the poverty line

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Antyodaya cards are the ration cards for the people below the poverty line. People who have no stable income, old men and women, labours, etc., are provided these cards under the Public Distribution System.