Impact of environmental problems on food security in India

Aleksei Shilov

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The bachelor thesis examines food security issues and choices. To demonstrate how global environmental issues affect Indian food security. Implementation: Food security assessment and improvement strategies are also delivered by the author, as well as identification food security-threatening environmental issues and identification of degradation causes, if there are any and remedies using 10-year statistical data. The theoretical part defines the concept of food security and global environmental, how they correlate, what topics is responsible and description of the current situation in India. The description will be based on books, since journals and articles. As for the practical part, the paper will outline the problems and solutions based on key findings of recent research and statistical data since 2000 till 2020 year using FAO, UN SDGs, Indian statistical office. The data will be processed by methods of statistical analyses – regression and time series analyses. In his conclusion, the author suggests that environmental issues are not directly related to the country’s food security and the author concludes that those two phenomena are dependent on the country’s economic and social transformations that are actively taking place in the first half of the 21st century.

Keywords

food, security, global

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 17. 3. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 18. 5. 2023
• Supervisor: Ing. Pavel Kotyza, Ph.D.
• Reader: Elena Kuzmenko, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme:
Business Administration