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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Note on the draft national food security bill
<p> <span id="itro1">This framework note on the draft food security bill released by Sonia Gandhi headed National Advisory Council attempts to build a strong system of grievance redressal for all food-related schemes, to ensure that food entitlements are realised.</span></p>
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The best investments for humanity
ON THE eastern edge of Kolkata, Dulu Bibi, a 25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys. Her husband earns . 80-90 ($1.90) a day. The family
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FSSAI guidelines for healthy food in midday meal on anvil
With several incidents of food poisoning due to sub-standard midday meals served to students coming to the fore and in view of school cafeterias selling junk food, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is in the process of framing a set of guidelines to ensure standard norms for nutritious diet to all. The proposed guidelines will be based on scientific parameters and reliabl
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NICUs at 22 district hospitals & 234 nutrition rehabilitation centres set up in state
In an effort to reduce infant mortality rate (IMR), over one lakh 18 thousand newly born babies were provided medical treatment by setting up Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres in the districts of Madhya Pradesh. The figure of children is infinitely more than last year.
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Talking of right to food, its a setback
THE Rangarajan Committee report is another move away from the vision of a comprehensive food security act. Undernutrition levels in India are among the highest in the world, and the problem cannot be addressed by just spending another Rs 10,000 crores or so on the Public Distribution System.
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Reproductive health, and child health and nutrition in India: meeting the challenge
India, with a population of more than 1 billion people, has many challenges in improving the health and nutrition of its citizens. Steady declines have been noted in fertility, maternal, infant and child mortalities, and the prevalence of severe manifestations of nutritional deficiencies, but the pace has been slow and falls short of national and Millennium Development Goal targets.
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Council to focus on nutrition
The Health Ministry will set up the National Nutrition Council on January 14, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the spokesman the Council to be set up by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on
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Proceedings of the ninety eighth session of the Indian Science Congess, Chennai, 2011 (Medical Sciences)
<p>Proceedings of the ninety eighth session of the Indian Science Congess, Chennai, 2011 (Medical Sciences).</p>
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Perspectives on poverty in India: stylized facts from survey data
<p>This report's objective is to develop the evidence base for policy making in relation to poverty reduction. It produces a diagnosis of the broad nature of the poverty problem and its trends in India, focusing on both consumption poverty and human development outcomes.
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Rising food crisis and financial crisis in India: impact on women and children and ways of tackling the problem
<p>The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these