Q.1 What are the dimensions of food security?

a) Availability, affordability, and adaptability

b) Availability, accessibility, and affordability

c) Availability, accessibility, and adaptability

d) Accessibility, affordability, and adaptability

Answer: b) Availability, accessibility, and affordability

Q.2 What is meant by the term ‘accessibility’ in relation to food security? Does it refer to

a) producing food within the country

b) the availability of imported food and government-stored food reserves,

c) the proximity of food to individuals

d) an individual’s ability to buy a sufficient amount of safe and nutritious food.

Answer: c) the proximity of food to individuals

Q.3 How is food security impacted during a natural calamity like drought?

a) Prices of food decrease due to surplus production
b) Total production of food grains increases
c) Shortage of food leads to price increases
d) Access to food becomes easier for everyone

Answer: c) Shortage of food leads to price increases

Q.4 What new dimension did Amartya Sen add to the concept of food security?

a) Quantity of food available per capita
b) Quality standards for food production
c) Access to food through entitlements
d) Affordability of food in the global market

Answer: c) Access to food through entitlements

Q.5 According to the 1995 World Food Summit declaration, when does food security exist?

a) When there is surplus food production globally
b) When there is equitable distribution of food resources
c) When all people have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food
d) When there is government intervention in food markets

Answer: c) When all people have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food

Q.6 Which system plays a crucial role in ensuring food security during shortages?

a) Cooperative farming
b) Minimum Support Price
c) Public Distribution System (PDS)
d) Free market mechanism

Answer: c) Public Distribution System (PDS)

Q.7 Who introduced the concept of entitlements in food security?

a) FAO
b) UN
c) Amartya Sen
d) World Food Summit

Answer: c) Public Distribution System (PDS)

Q.8 Affordability of food implies that an individual

a) has access to ration shops
b) can purchase sufficient, safe and nutritious food
c) lives near agricultural fields
d) receives food free of cost

Answer: b) can purchase sufficient, safe and nutritious food

Q.9 Which recent event adversely affected food security in India?

a) Green Revolution
b) Economic liberalisation
c) Covid-19 pandemic
d) Urbanisation

Answer: c) Covid-19 pandemic

Q.10 Which of the following groups is considered most food insecure in rural areas?

a) Large farmers
b) Plantation owners
c) Government employees
d) Landless labourers

Answer: d) Landless labourers

Q.11 Seasonal employment contributes to food insecurity mainly because it

a) increases migration
b) lowers food prices
c) ensures irregular income
d) improves job opportunities

Answer: c) ensures irregular income

Q.12 Which group forms an important segment of the food-insecure population?

a) Elderly people only
b) Industrial workers
c) Pregnant women and children below five
d) School-going children

Answer: c) Pregnant women and children below five

Q.13 Achieving food security mainly involves

a) eliminating present hunger and future risks
b) increasing food exports
c) controlling food prices
d) storing more food

Answer: a) eliminating present hunger and future risks

Q.14 Chronic hunger occurs due to

a) temporary job loss
b) irregular rainfall
c) persistently inadequate diet
d) seasonal migration

Answer: c) persistently inadequate diet

Q.15 The Green Revolution mainly boosted the production of

a) pulses and oilseeds
b) wheat and rice
c) maize and barley
d) sugarcane and cotton

Answer: b) wheat and rice

Q.16 The ‘Wheat Revolution’ stamp was released in

a) 1965
b) 1975
c) 1971
d) 1968

Answer: d) 1968