![India’s National Food Security Act (NFSA) is an effective way to provide basic food rations to the majority of Indians who struggle to feed their families.](https://foodtank.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/food-tank-india-food-security-p2-e1512683565683.jpg)
India’s food security and stockholding program uses precisely the same policies that the U.S. used in its early farm policy coming out of the Great Depression. Exactly the same: price supports, food reserves, administered markets, subsidies. The U.S. government used them because they work. India and other countries should be allowed to use them, too. Because they work.