The Institute for Human Development (IHD) had prepared a Food Security Atlas of Rural Jharkhand with support from World Food Programme (WFP) in 2008-09. The present Atlas revisits the issue of food security in rural Jharkhand with the primary focus of identifying the extremely food insecure districts. Based on the analysis of latest data, the ‘Atlas’ maps the status of food security situation in rural Jharkhand at the district level. It also makes policy as well as programme recommendations for enhancing food and nutrition security in the state. The study has used disaggregate-level data to examine the extent and dimensions of food security at the district level in rural Jharkhand using various indicators from latest secondary data sources.

The Institute for Human Development (IHD), Delhi had prepared a Food Security Atlas of rural Bihar with support from World Food Programme (WFP) in 2008-09.This Food and Nutritional Security Atlas for Bihar aims to update the previous exercise undertaken at the district level. It extensively documents the prevailing food and nutrition security scenario in Bihar and chalks out a district level profile of food security in Bihar as well as to compare the status of food security in its districts across two time perods (2008-09 and 2016- 17). It provides an overview of the state in terms of basic economic indicators such as education, health, employment and physical infrastructure; presents the food availability, access and utilization indices as well as a composite index of food security outcomes; analyses the overall food security input index (FSI) which is a composite index of the factors that are critical for food security in Bihar; identifies the priority districts as well as compares food security in the districts of Bihar between 2008-09 and 2016 - 17.