Food as a Discourse: Politics of Poverty and Poverty Politics in context of India’s Food Security Act 2013

Abstract

The present paper, in its limited way, provides a nonconventional approach to look at the entire issue of poverty politics and its relation to National Food Security Act (NFSA) of 2013 from non-economic points of views such as social, political and cultural. In its discussion the present work stress on the various discourses which construct a larger discourse on Food both as a consumption entity and a political issue coupled with poverty in the country. Though the article does not provide any major recommendations, it opens up a new possibility to critically look at the issue of poverty and food security related to various sociocultural and political discourses in the country.