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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Proven successes in agricultural development
This report examines where, why, and how past interventions in agricultural development have succeeded. It carefully reviews the policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the past half century.
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Restructure dysfunctional nutrition programmes: PM
Underscoring the need for all departments to come together while addressing the problem of malnutrition, prime minister Manmohan Singh has said that existing programmes should be restructured if they are not helping in removing the scourge. Manmohan Singh
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PM: Malnutrition level quite high
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed concern over the fact that despite the progress made by the country
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On some fatal fallacies
Continuing the debate on the Deaton and Dreze analysis of food and nutrition in India, it is argued that the latter’s analysis is defective because (i) it does not look at direct and indirect cereal consumption
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From calorie fundamentalism to cereal accounting
Utsa Patnaik’s new critique of our work on food and nutrition is wholly unconvincing. Her analysis of international patterns of “total” cereal consumption, interesting as it may be, does not invalidate
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From calorie fundamentalism to cereal accounting
Utsa Patnaik
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Surinder Sud: Fishing for food security
Boosting fish production can help India alleviate nutritional deficiency in a big way The green revolution has largely mitigated food security concerns even though flawed distribution and food inflation keep a section of the population underfed.
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Identifying potential synergies and trade-offs for meeting food security and climate change objectives in sub-Saharan Africa
Potential interactions between food production and climate mitigation are explored for two situations in sub-Saharan Africa, where deforestation and land degradation overlap with hunger and poverty.
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Tk 25,000cr health sector programme
All is set to continue the health, population and nutrition sector programme for the third consecutive time involving estimated Tk 25,000 crore as the second programme ends next June, health ministry officials