THE FOOD SYSTEM

VAISHALI

ICAR research complex for eastern region

Patna, Bihar

India

Food Availability Production DistributionExchange

Food AccessAffordabilityAllocationPreference

Food UtilizationNutritional valueSocial valueFood safety

Important activities in the food system

Production

1. Land preparationLand availabilityRainfall / irrigationSoil type

2. Purchase of inputsAvailability in the marketPricesCapital with the farmer

3. Sowing and Weed / pest controlRainfall / irrigationSoil typeLabour availabilityAvailability of inputs

4. HarvestingLabour availabilityClimateMarket demand

 5. Selling / consumptionHousehold needMarket demand / priceNeed of cashTransportation

Production

Distribution

•Selling / buyingConsumption needPriceNeed for cash (indebtedness)Marketing facilitiesDemand in the marketStorage facilities

2.Processing and packaging Type of productInfrastructure facilitiesSkills availableMargin of profit

3. Transportation

Consumption needs

Infrastructure

Time and Cost of transportation

Distribution

ExchangeNon availability of cashPoor marketing mechanismUrgency of needs

Food AccessAffordability

Household incomePrice

AllocationPolicy support

PreferenceFood habitsCustoms and traditions

1. Nutritional valueHealth needTaste

2. Social valueSocial preferencesCustoms and traditions AdvertisementDemonstration effect Social status

Food Utilization

3. Food safety

Ingredients

Hygiene

Awareness

Digestibility

Availability of information

•Demographic data•Geographical information•Education•Health•Energy & electricity•Land use •Area production and productivity data •Fertilizer consumption•Consumption of seeds, pesticides and insecticides (in quintal)

•Detail of irrigation facilities in the district

•Classification of workers

•Size of holdings

•Animal husbandry

•Number of bank branches

•Rapid household survey data – reproduction and child health

Review Production•Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in

Asia Country Work Plan – India; Pro-poor Intervention Strategies in Irrigated Agriculture in Asia (RETA No. 5945) 160

•IRS-1B based FCC image interpretation for land use and land cover mapping: An expert system approach, Rajkishore Prasad & A. K. Sinha,; GISdevelopment.net

•www.vaishali.bih.nic.in•Deptt. of Statistics and Evaluation, Govt. of Bihar•SERVING FARMERS AND SAVING FARMING National

Commission on Farmers (NCF), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, December 2004

•Report of the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, 2005

•Understanding Poverty and Vulnerability in India’s Uttar Pradesh and

Bihar: A Mixed Method Approach; Barbara Parker and Valerie Kozel (World

Bank) www.utoronto.ca/mcis/q2/papers/III_Kozel.pdf

•Kozel, V and B. Parker: “Poverty in Rural India: The Contribution of

Qualitative Research in Poverty Analysis”; WDR on Poverty and development

2000/01 in Stiglitz Summer Research Workshop on Poverty,

washingtonDC,1999. http://www.chs.ubc.ca/lprv/PDF/lprv0566.pdf

•Q-Squared Working Paper No. 9 October 2005

•The Great Indian Poverty Debate/edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie

Kozel. Delhi, MacMillan, 2005, xix, 600 p., tables, ISBN 1403-92644-1.

•Rural Settlement Patterns : A Case Study of Vaishali District/Shio Muni

Yadav. 1997, xii, 171 p., figs. Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. Vardhaman

Charve Plaza IV, Building # 9, K.P Block, Pitampura, New Delhi 110 034,

India, Fax: 91-11-27310613, e-mail: vedams@vedamsbooks.com

Social value

•Understanding the Linkages Between Population Growth,

Depletion of Natural Resources and its Implications for Women: A Focus

on the EAG States, Kamla Gupta and Mohua Guha, National Seminar on

Population, Environment and Nexus, October 21, 2005, International

Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai

•Adapting food systems of the Indo-Gangetic plains to global

environmental change: key information needs to improve policy

formulation, P.K. Aggarwal, P.K. Joshi, J.S.I. Ingram, R.K. Gupta

Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004) 487–498

Food safety

Nutritional value•ICDS Programme in Bihar, N.C.Saxena;

Bottlenecks in the implementation of ICDS Programmes And proposes recommendations which are feasible and practical in the context of Bihar

•www.supremecourtcommissioners.org/reports/pdf%20files/comrs%20report/fifthreportofcommissioners.pdf

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