Abstract

Development agencies regard the concept of household food security-often defined as "access for all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life"-as a guiding principle for designing interventions in rural areas because poverty is the major determinant of food insecurity and achievement of food security is the goal of development. It is a known fact that the poor do not have adequate access to food in quantities needed for a healthy life, hence food security is an absolute necessity for development. In this paper, database related to food security for the Western Uttar Pradesh region of India were analysed for food security indices such as food availability, food stability, and food accessibility to classify the region. The result classify the southern portion of the western Uttar Pradesh as highest food security region; and the northern portion as low food security region due to lack of fair price shops, low level of purchasing power, lack of storage capacity and lack of food grains production.

Key words: Food availability, food stability, food accessibility, food security.