BLOG BY: AYUSH SINGH TAWAR

      FOOD CRISIS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Managing disasters and crises is difficult during times when resources are stretched thin and infrastructure is challenged to the fullest. It is most important not to make a bad situation worse due to poor planning and implementation. Our public health experts are poised to assist your organization in creating public health disaster plans before the food crisis occurs, the most critical of times.

Our Disaster Response Team can help ensure that public health issues of importance are not neglected during the creation and maintenance of disaster centers and evacuation camps.

• 1.Shelter Sanitation, Food Safety and Infection Control
• 2.Drinking Water Quality, Emergency Disinfection, Boil Advisory Information, Sanitary Surveys, Well Water Disinfection and Sampling Interpretation.
• 3.Wastewater Disposal, Onsite Disposal-Temp Facilities, Evaluation of Wastewater Disposal Plans for Evacuation Camps and Emergency Shelters
• 4.Solid Waste - Storage Issues and Pest Control
• 5.Building Issues - Mold Assessments
• 6.Vector Control and Pest Management, Development of Control Plans, Vectorborne Illness Investigations
• 7.Assist Health Departments in Writing Public Health and All Hazard Disaster Plans
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The Food Corporation of India was setup under the Food Corporation Act 1964, in order to fulfill following objectives of the Food Policy :

• Effective price support operations for safeguarding the interests of the farmers.
• Distribution of food grains throughout the country for public distribution system
• Maintaining satisfactory level  of operational  and buffer stocks of food grains to ensure National Food Security

In its 50 years of service to the nation, FCI has played a significant role in India's success in transforming the crisis management oriented food security into a stable security system. FCI's Objectives are:

• To provide farmers remunerative prices
• To make food grains available at reasonable prices, particularly to vulnerable section of the society
• To maintain buffer stocks as measure of Food Security
• To intervene in market for price stabilization

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