HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Climate change, drought and other extreme weather events, pests, livestock diseases and other agricultural problems, rapid population growth, corruption and political instability, military conflicts and so on.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reducing poverty is a key element in a policy for food security, because poor people spend such a large share of their incomes on food, leaving them vulnerable to high food prices, and many poor people obtain much of their income from farming, leaving them vulnerable to declines in agricultural output.

Detailed explanation-3: -The SCs, STs and some sections of the OBCs (lower castes among them) who have either poor land-base or very low land productivity are prone to food insecurity. The people affected by natural disasters, who have to migrate to other areas in search of work, are also among the most food insecure people.