(This paper is published in the book "Sustainable Agriculture in 21st Century" by Regal publications New Delhi With ISBN 978-81-8484 in the year 2014) DK Number: DK-242786 Title: Sustainable agriculture in 21st century : strategic approaches and practices Author: Editors Dr. Naheen Haider Zaidi and Mohammad Muqeet Khan. Year: [2015] Price: INR 1,180.00 S. V IJAY K UMAR Ensuring food security ought to be an issue of great importance for a country like India where more than one-third of the population is estimated to be absolutely poor and one-half of all children malnourished in one way or another. There have been many emerging issues in the context of food security in India in the last two decades. They are: 1) Economic liberalization in the 1990s and its impact on agriculture and food security; 2) Establishment of WTO: particularly the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) under it; 3) Challenges of climate change; crisis of the