2023, Vol. 8, Special Issue 4

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) set up 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030. One of the various SDGs is to achieve zero hunger, which is directly connected to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition. Present study attempted to analyse dimensions of food insecurity among tribal households in Gujarat with the help of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) index. The head count ratio, the food insecurity gap (short-fall), and the squared food insecurity gap (severity of food insecurity) were estimated to be 81 per cent, 14 per cent, and 3 per cent, respectively. The survey result has showed that from 150 sample households, 121 (80.67%) households were food insecure and only 29 (19.33%) were found food secure. The average dietary energy available for food secure households and food insecure households was 3178.25 Kcal and 2272.44 Kcal, respectively. Promotion of family planning, enhancing household’s farm income-earning opportunities through provision of sufficient input to enhance agricultural production and productivity and creation of rural employment opportunities are recommended.