Food Consumption, Trade Reforms and Trade Patterns in Contemporary India: How Do Australia and NZ Fit in? * Srikanta Chatterjee, Allan Rae and Ranjan Ray ** Working Paper 2/06 Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies Massey Universuty, Palmerston North New Zealand * The research for this paper started when Ranjan Ray visited Massey University during June/July 2005. He acknowledges the financial support of the Venture Trust in making that visit possible. The authors also acknowledge the painstaking and skilful research assistance of Geoffrey Lancaster, funded by an ARC grant, and the financial support from the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology grant IERX0301. ** Srikanta Chatterjee is a Professor in the Department of Applied and International Economics, Massey University, New Zealand, as is Allan Rae who is also Director of the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies. Ranjan Ray is a Professor in the School of Economics, University of Tasmania. 1