Emergency Measures for Food Security: How Relevant to Africa is the South Asian Model?

The food policies of South Asian countries are characterized by massive interventions to provide food entitlements to potentially vulnerable groups and to other categories of consumers whose food security has a high political priority. There are broadly three categories of intervention:

1. Ration and other food-entitlement schemes which typically combine the dual objectives of assuring supplies (food security) and subsidized consumption (income transfers) to eligible groups.