Escalating food security status in Gujrat State of India

By using district-level secondary data, 2016 and indicator approach, the present study has developed a food security index for the districts associated with the State of Gujarat, India. The calculated FSI revealed that Ahmadabad district has the highest food security status, whereas Porbandar district has the lowest food security status. The estimated results show that there exists a significant food inequality across districts due to variation in socioeconomic variables. The study suggests that (i) creation of more job opportunities in non-farm would be critical to improve accessibility power of people to acquire food, (ii) food security would be sustainable as increase government expenditure in agriculture and rural development, public spending in agriculture and R &D, development of infrastructure and food-grain storage, and credit flow in the market (iii), and the government of India is required to adopt an effective mechanism to reduce marketing in order to control food price inflation.