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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Against the grain
Market-dependent urban food practices are swallowing up indigenous food habits Tribal elder Nabbu Supari Tekam in tiny Kolam village of Yavatmal district in Maharashtra loves to tell this story
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Food that keeps you fit
Dried mahua flowers consumed in the rainy season when grain is scarce help retain body heat and keep away chills and joint pains. Young leaves of tarota, a short green plant abundant during the rains, consumed at least seven times during the season keeps away arthritis. Ikdodi, a bitter fruit, consumed at least once in a year kills intestinal worms and removes feverish tendencies.
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The India state hunger index: comparisons of hunger across states
India has consistently ranked poorly on the Global Hunger Index. The Global Hunger Index 2008 reveals India
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Rising food and fuel prices: addressing the risks to future generations
Ensuring food security in the face of rapidly rising food prices requires a combination of effective safety nets and improving agricultural productivity. Adjusting to higher fuel prices will require again effective safety nets plus a combination of efficient energy use and diversification away from traditional fossil fuels.
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The peanut butter debate
A new type of ready-to-use food is changing the way severe malnutrition is treated. But questions remain about how far to push its introduction--and science has a hard time providing the answer.
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Impact of an integrated nutrition and health programme on neonatal mortality in rural northern India
The neonatal period is recognized as a brief, critical time that requires focused interventions to reach the Millennium Development Goal of a two-thirds reduction in child mortality by 2015. In India there are one million neonatal deaths every year, representing approximately a quarter of all global neonatal deaths.
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Private via public
Alliance with UNICEF in question even though the Ministry of Women and Child Development is yet to take a decision on the conflict of interest between public-private partnerships and government policies, the ministry has launched a five-year programme on child welfare in collaboration with unicef in seven states. unicef, which often implements child nutrition programmes in India,
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Being Good
On 22 September, PepsiCo
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Renuka comes up with fresh read-to-eat plan
Ministry Proposes
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Tainted milk may have been imported from China
Asian countries including Bangladesh may have imported the tainted milk formula that has claimed the lives of 3 babies in China so far.