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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Food for thought at Copenhagen
Jay Naidoo Good nutrition is the nexus point where food security, public health and environmental protection meet.
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Evaluation of nutritional garden model at farmers' fields
Now days due to economic security, paddy-wheat rotation is prevalent in Punjab. This crop rotation has directly or indirectly caused a lot of ecological, economic and health problems. According to Indian Council of Medical Research, a healthy person should consume 300g vegetables, 40g pulses and negligible quanity of fruits per person per day.
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Gender equity in agriculture and rural development
Mainstreaming gender equity has become a strategic objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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A feast of millets
Cities have forgotten the amazing foods and cuisines they used to once enjoy. To remind them the Millet Network of India (MINI) and Kheti Virasat Mission organised the first ever exhibition of millets at the Press Club in Chandigarh called Bebe di Rasoi (Grandmother
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Food security atlas of rural Bihar
The Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar is one of a series of eight Atlases produced by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The other states covered in this series are: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The Atlases carry out a district-level analysis of food security for each of these states.
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Ministry to introduce a National Nutrition Policy
The Health and Nutrition Ministry will introduce a National Nutrition Policy in order to develop a national action plan and a strategic plan to be implemented through inter-sectoral cooperation by the provincial health authorities, a Ministry spokesman said.
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More bang for carbon bucks
MEDIA organisations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find
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Report of the expert group to review the methodology for estimation of poverty (Tendulkar Committee Report)
<p>The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently.
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Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition: a survival and development priority
This report, published by the UN Children
