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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Assessment of programmes on national food security mission in India with special reference to West Bengal
<p>Food security has been a cause of concern for the Indian economy as the physical and economic access to food with adequate calorie content from different sources has been on the wane over time. The per capita net availability of cereals and pulses declined from 510 gms per day in 1991 to 436 gms in 2008 as per data thrown by the Economic Survey, Government of India, 2009-10.</p>
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Jan Ahaar scheme launched
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday launched the Jan Ahaar Yojana to ensure full nutritious meal twice a day to hundreds of persons at Rs 15 per meal across the city from seven Jan Ahaar Centres. Ms Dikshit inaugurated a Jan Ahaar Centre at the Asaf Ali Road.
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Enforcing corporate responsibility
Zoe Williams
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Dhaka to get US health aid
The US has selected Bangladesh as one of the eight 'Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus' countries. As part of this global initiative, the US is investing $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems -- with a particular focus on improving the health of women, newborns and children by providing quality health services and comba
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KIT study paints grim picture
Ranchi, June 14: Most children working in dhabas and tea stalls in the capital harbour dreams of going to school, but their poverty-ravaged families and employers discourage them, says an ongoing study being conducted by legal students of Kalinga Institute of Technology (KIT), Bhubaneswar.
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Put millets back on the plate
One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.
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NAC to do reality check on flagship schemes
THE new National Advisory Council (NAC), which had its first meeting here on Thursday, decided to evaluate implementation of flagship programmes of UPA I. It also decided to have food security bill, communal violence bill and tribal development as priorities apart from monitoring better implementation of existing social sector schemes.
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Nutrition, HR gets priority for health in budget
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Thursday proposed Taka 8,149 crore for health and family welfare for fiscal 2010-11, focusing his government's pledge on cutting malnutrition, ensuring better service at the community level and growing required human resources. "With a view to providing better health services to the people, recruitment of 6,391 health assistants has been completed during th
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Govt starts nutritional food prog
Ahmedabad: Launching supplementary nutritional food programme targeted at about 40 lakh beneficiaries, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi called upon the non-government organisations and society leaders to donate toys for children at anganwadis.