The volume presents the contemporary scenario vis-à-vis food, agriculture and human development. Referring to food and agriculture policies and development and improved agricultural opportunities, the 38 articles in the volume discuss how food cannot be separated from issues of agriculture and human well-being. They deal with the right to food, enhancing livelihoods through increased production and consumption of nutritious food and lank between agriculture, food security and nutrition for vulnerable people. Scholars from different countries like Uzbekistan, India, China, Thailand and the USA take up food safety, food policy and healthy progressive change in land reforms and agricultural policy. They delve into ways to improve agriculture through higher education in the field, focusing on agricultural extension for sustained development, future of seed industry and use of technological innovations in growth of crops like cashew nut.