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
Nutrition
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State to seek Rs 2,606 cr for drought relief work
The State government will seek Rs 2,606 crore from the Centre to take up relief operations in the drought-affected areas of the State, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said on Sunday. Addressing the
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The National Food Security Bill, 2011 (Bill No. 132 of 2011)
Read text of the National Food Security Bill cleared by the Union Cabinet to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices.
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Anaemia in low-income and middle-income countries
Anaemia aff ects a quarter of the global population, including 293 million (47%) children younger than 5 years and 468 million (30%) non-pregnant women. In addition to anaemia’s adverse health consequences,
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Rs 4,724 crore supplementary budget presented
BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei placed the supplementary budget of Rs 4,724.62 crore in the Assembly on Monday. Ghadei said adequate provision has been made in the budget towards
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Food security Bill will not ramp up subsidy: Thomas
New Delhi Just two days ahead of a crucial cabinet meeting to clear the UPA-II government’s National Food Security Bill (NFSB), food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the country’s food subsidy would not
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Brinjal debacle still raw, Bt rice on course
Mahyco confident of regulatory approvals, plans launch within a year. Bt brinjal may have gone into the deep freezer, but that has hardly dampened the enthusiasm of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co (Mahyco) from coming up with new genetically modified (GM) crops.
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Strengthening the role of agriculture for a nutrition secure India
India’s central development strategy should be to systematize structural and sector-specific measures the government can implement immediately to promote nutrition security while not losing sight of the
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Appropriateness of the Sri Lanka poverty line for measuring urban poverty: the case of Colombo
This paper discusses the many limitations of the official poverty lines applied in Sri Lanka (and many other nations). These include poverty lines’ reliance on expert-based determination of basic food
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Reducing poverty and hunger through food policy research
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the
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Child malnutrition in Karnataka
This report is based on several visits to villages and slums across Karnataka and information collected under RTI by several organisations working towards eradicating malnutrition in the State and is being