Food Security, Public Health, Poverty and the Unfinished Agenda of Land to the Tiller

There is an inherent linkage between food security, public health and poverty. No attempt to improve the health of the people can be effective unless there is a comprehensive development strategy to address all of these three together. Poverty of our people is the biggest factor that undermines their food security and health. Rural areas continue to be the forte of these problems. Apart from this rural life, economy and politics continues to be defined by agriculture which provides livelihoods for more than 50 percent of our work force; This paper identifies implementation of land reforms as an important means towards this end and marshals wide range of data to bring out the connection between Food Security, Public Health and the need to implement thorough going land reforms in the country.