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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Govt employees to adopt malnourished children in Khandwa district
Government staff of Khandwa district will undertake efforts for eradication of malnutrition. In this connection, the Khandwa collector convened a meeting of all the departmental heads and administered them a pledge that every government employee will adopt a malnourished child with a view to helping his family to raise the child in a better way while ensuring the child's health and nutrition.
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Gains yes but survey shows lapses eating into mid-day meal benefits
A Planning Commission survey has found startling lapses in the celebrated Mid Day Meal programme of the government.
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Change policies that create hunger
Gargi Parsai
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MP Cabinet proposes Cottonseeds Bill
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet today gave its nod for tabling the Madhya Pradesh Kapas Beej Vidheyak 2010 (Madhya Pradsh Cotton Seeds Bill 2010) in the coming monsoon session of the Assembly. After promulgation of the Act, the state government will have full control over cottonseed rates and farmers will be able to get the same at reasonable rates, an official release said here today.
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Food security of APL, BPL & IPL
P. Sainath The official line is simple. Since we cannot afford to feed all the hungry, there must only be as many hungry as we can afford to feed.
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Govt looks to focus on girls in areas with severe malnutrition
Himanshi Dhawan & Mahendra Kumar Singh | TNN
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NACs inclusive food for thought
Food Security Bill Set For Radical Rewrite; To Benefit More, Add Nutritional Value M Rajshekhar NEW DELHI THE National Advisory Council (NAC), it appears, is set to radically rewrite the the Food Security Bill.
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Acute multidimensional poverty: a new index for Developing Countries
In this paper OPHI presents details of new Multidimensional Poverty Index developed for 104 developing countries. This will be featured in the forthcoming UNDP HDR 2010 & replaces the Human Poverty Index used in these reports since 1997.<br />
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Pacific islanders pay heavy price for abandoning traditional diet
Replacing traditional foods with imported, processed food has contributed to the high prevalence of obesity and related health problems in the Pacific islands.