Title: Right to food in India: examining the reality from legal and economic perspectives

Authors: Bhavana Sharma; Amritkant Mishra

Addresses: Department of Law, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, India ' Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract: This research article strives to investigate the right to food issue from the legal and economic outlook in India. We examine the right to food in terms of its accessibility, sufficiency, sustainability, and availability. The freedom of the person and the defence of his fundamental rights are at the very core of the democratic way of life that the constitution adopted and it is the court's privilege and obligation to safeguard those rights. To examine the right to food in India through the economic outlook, the current analysis investigates the impact of food inflation on level of hunger in India from 2001 to 2019. The empirical outcome of ARDL analysis reveals that food inflation is relevant variable, which impact the hunger in India. Our result affirms that food inflation leads to an increase in percentage of hungry people in India.

Keywords: right to food; food inflation; food security; human rights; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2025.145272

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2025 Vol.12 No.2, pp.142 - 155

Received: 09 Aug 2023
Accepted: 01 Sep 2023
Published online: 31 Mar 2025 *

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