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ThesisItem Open Access Socio-Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Food Security in Haryana(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 1991) Kumar, Dalip; Nath, M.The developmental and academic interest in the problem of food security was First generated when the World Food Conference, convened by Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1974, drew the attention for the first time to the need and ways for ensuring food security to the hungry millions of the world. It called upon the world community that no child and woman should go to bed hungry and human being's physical and mental capabilities should be stunted for want of food. The call for the food security is the outcome of the growing imbalance between demand and supply of food, particularly in poor countries and need to bridge this gap through short and long term measures. The developing countries comprised or more than 70 percent of the world population but contribute only 45 per cent or the world's cereal production. The problem of food security gets accentuated owing to the fact that their access to surplus food is becoming increasingly difficult.ThesisItem Open Access Socio-Economic Impact of Agricultural Technology in The Rural Poor in Haryana - A Case Study(Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar, 1987) Kumar, Dalip; Gupta, J. Pone of the most persistence theme in social science history and humanities i.e. the impact of technology and technological change on all aspects of social and economic life. Major changes in Human life have been Associated with major technological changes such as food producing revolution the urban revolution and its modern continuations even the evolution of biologically modern man has been sequenced by innovation in tool using (Encyclopedia of Social Sciences 1968) In the field of agricultural technology, there have been immense changes in last 75 years. Advances in chemistry have led to the preparation of new fertilizers and pesticides. Advance in biology have resulted in propitiation of new varieties of seeds, high yielding, on the one band and. disease resisting, on the other. In a third direction, there have been developments in the construction of new mechanical and labour saving devices.