Hunger, Poverty and Silence: The Synergy of Danger and Dereliction in the Social Ecology of India

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Hunger, Poverty and Silence: The Synergy of Danger and Dereliction in the Social Ecology of India

Journal Title: Indian Journal of Agriculture Business - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1

Abstract

More than one billion people in the world are reeling under the social venom of hunger and against each of 3.4 second; we are losing one hungry child forever. This been the world scenario, the challenges of food security have been turned into a struggle for social existence food security. While describing food security, it is the contribution of polymorphic factors like access to food, quality of food, cost of food and then food free of social and gender discrimination. The paper examines the trifoliate disposition of the threats that refrains a hungry bowl from getting food. The combination of three social decadents’ viz. hunger, poverty and silence has been inextricably tuned. It is found that when people go silent or kept silent, poverty goes up and then hunger has become the worst and coercive consequence to poverty. Silence in this study has been conceived as a situation of getting ‘uninformed’, ‘unvoiced’ and ‘non-verbal’. The neoinformation divide as a resultant of explicit globalization has vitiated the situation further. The section of the population remaining un-tuned to the sources of information and impact of being selectively uninformed are invariably getting complex in social economic and cultural terms in present India. So, this would suggest a lot of interventions to be made including scale neutrality of technology, announced entitlement to resources, drastic change in policy and governance and academic researches with human faces both at micro and macro level of functioning right at this moment. The methodology used in this study includes both participatory data generation and survey method. The field data then undergo a multivariate analysis to estimate the reticulate impact of poverty hunger and silence through a mutually synchronized interaction. It has been astoundingly found that both the hunger and poverty are inextricably reticulated to silence to infer that silence of people has been enrooted into their hunger and poverty. People are poor because they are not allowed to speak; they are hungry because they prefer to remain silent. All the qualitative variables under study have been quantified by application of scales and underwent z-transformation for their normalization to befit against normal distribution curve.

Authors and Affiliations

S. K. Acharya

Keywords

Uninformed Section; Unvoiced; Non-Verbal; Explicit Globalization; Scale Neutrality of Technology; Selectively Uninformed; Food Security.

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EP ID EP450941
DOI 10.21088/ijab.2454.7964.3117.4
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