First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Dept of horticulture plans to develop garden on 2,500 acres of land in Mysore district. Senior assistant director of Department of Horticulture M S Raju said in an effort to make the district free from
Malnutrition still being the biggest malady of Odisha, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has come up with an innovative project to counter it. The Foundation will implement ‘Malnutrition
Market leaders, Dutch follows tringent quality control The potato has a 12,000-year-old history but an even brighter future as a crop that is set to replace rice as a staple in the Asian rice-consuming countries. It requires less amount of water compared to other basic food products, without compromising the nutrition value. Potato, therefore, is increasingly being promoted, in the genetically modified organism-free European Union (EU), as the foremost solution for meeting the increased food demand for an estimated 6 billion world population by 2030.
Here’s some more food for thought for Vilas Muttemwar, chairman of the parliamentary panel reviewing the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) – the dream project of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. An expert
A bill to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times
Protesting against the Centre’s proposal to extend the cash transfer scheme to the Public Distribution System, the Right to Food Campaign on Saturday demanded that the government bring in a comprehensive national food security Act that provides for universal PDS. Ensuring nutrition through various measures should be the focus of the Bill. The Bill is under consideration of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food. Participating in the concluding session of the three-day protest rally here, economist Jayati Ghosh argued that a universal PDS was an essential part of sound economic policy. She expressed the apprehension that the main beneficiaries of cash transfers would be commercial enterprises.
The Uttar Pradesh government signed a memorandum of operation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday for bilateral and technical cooperation in health, nutrition, agriculture and other development
Five months after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation met and promised to initiate more development activities in Uttar Pradesh, the government
One in two children suffers from zinc deficiency, a study conducted on newborns and infants in three city hospitals has found. The study, coordinated by the AIIMS paediatrics department, found that
Despite ensuring ample availability of food, existence of food insecurity at the micro-level in the country has remained a formidable challenge for India. The recently introduced National Food Security