Pulses for Food and Nutritional Security of India

Introduction.- An Overview of Pulses Economy.- Pulses Production and Food security.- Consumption of Pulses and Food Security.- National Food Security Mission and Pulses Production.- Socio-Economic Profile of the Sample Households.- Pulses Production, Trade and Government Policies.- Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-through in Pulses Imports.- Minimum Support and Price Policies.- Information and Utilisation of MSP: Major Determinants.- Supply Response of Major Pulses.- Conclusion and Policy Implications.

Dr. Poornima is an Assistant Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Management in agriculture of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. She did her PhD in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. During her Doctoral Research she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, during which she worked at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to joining Indian Institute of Management, she has worked as faculty at the Department of Policy Studies of TERI University, New Delhi. She has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for WTO Studies of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and as a Research Assistant at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Her main areas of teaching and research include international trade, agriculture, sustainable agricultural technology adoption, farm labor migration, food security and issues related to WTO. She has considerable number of publications to her credit. She has presented papers at various national and international conferences including European Trade Study Group's Annual Conference at University of Vienna and Post-Graduate Conference at University of Nottingham as a student, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), International Association of Agricultural Economists, University of Canberra, Nanjing Agricultural University etc. as a faculty. She has published papers in top peer reviewed international journals such as Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Studies and Applied Economics. She has also published a book with Springer titled 'Rice Productivity and Food Security in India'.