Study of Environmental Justice in Agriculture and Food System in India

Abstract: As we know that, India is an agrarian country, most of its population depend upon agriculture for food and income, as it’s the backbone of Nation as well as traditional business of most of the population of India. Global warming& climate changes forced policymakers to highlights the need & importance of environmental justice. Nowadays, each and every step taken by Indian Government, institution or any organization are aligned & towards to maintain the environmental justice. This is a conceptual paper and its aim is to introduce the concept of environmental justice and its importance in the agriculture and food system in India. In addition to this it also reviews the role of different agriculture and food system organisation and their contribution in environmental justice. It highlighted that marginal farmers have more potentials to take a production on large scale but they also facing the Socio-Economic challenges. This paper concluded that with the help of environmental justice India can achieve the remarkable progress in sustainable development and can achieve the goal of government. The finding of this paper examine that the agriculture and food system institutes show the economic justice in subsidies, schemes, policy and trade practices. Also, food system keeps the nutritional value and deliver the quality food by maintaining social justice with food security.