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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Bangladesh national road map for adaptation to climate change impacts on food security
Impacts of climate change are visible in Bangladesh in the form of temperature extremes, erratic rainfall, and increased number of floods, cyclones, droughts, and increasing prevalence of rough weather
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The sensitivity of food security in India to alternate estimation methods
There are a number of assumptions required to estimate actual calories consumed from expenditure data regarding calories contained in processed foods and meals eaten outside the household. Ideally, estimates
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Number of maternal deaths in Assam still remains high
<p> GUWAHATI, Despite a slew of schemes launched by the Assam Government to improve the health sector in the State, the maternal mortality rate continues to show an upward trend as per official records. In Assam, according to a scheme launched by the State Government on nutrition, every pregnant woman who gets herself registered in a health centre gets a monetary assistance of Rs 1,000 for taking n</p>
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Fudging parameter to reduce number of poor
New Delhi: How does the government manage to keep the poverty line so low? Rather simple for the statisticians
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A case for reframing the cash transfer debate in India
<p>Cash transfers are now suggested by many as a silver bullet for addressing the problems that plague India’s anti-poverty programmes. This article argues instead for evidence-based policy and informed public debate to clarify the place, prospects and problems of cash transfers in India.
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Conditional cash transfers as a tool of social policy
<p>The design of public cash transfers involves a careful balancing of policy priorities and objectives. Variations in the rationale for a conditional cash transfer shape benefit amounts, coverage, duration of programme participation, targeting practices and the definition of conditionality.
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US to provide $51.3m in food assistance
The US government will provide $51.3 million in food assistance to Bangladesh in fiscal year 2011. The awards, which include transportation and freight costs, will be implemented under the Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programmes, said a US embassy press release Thursday. In Bangladesh, Food for Progress will provide benefits valued
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Country's first bio-safety lab opens
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) yesterday opened country's first bio-safety laboratory to protect its scientists and technicians from infliction of viral onslaughts during research work. US ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty inaugurated the lab. ICDDR'B officials said the new facility would help researchers to handle the deadly viruses with more p
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Self-sufficiency in livestock by 2016
The Livestock and Rural Community Development Ministry will enhance the livestock production in the country to achieve self-sufficiency in livestock products by 2016, Livestock and Rural Community Development Ministry Secretary A H Gamage said. He said that it was necessary to produce 740 million litres of milk, 200,000 metric tonnes of poulty and 2,000 million eggs annually to be self sufficie
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Check Govt grain buys, use cash transfers or food coupons: study
Massive grain procurement to meet the requirements under the proposed national food security law could drive out the private sector and have larger implications on the state of the domestic procurement market, a study on food and nutritional security has warned. Apart from impacting exports and cereal price in the open market, rising public procurement will only make it costly to buy, store, tran