World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal
Kalavati Barai of Raipur Tea Estate in Jalpaiguri has been watching the consistent deterioration of her family of six over the past four years. In March this year, her husband succumbed to severe
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Stories of success and failure
sampat Lal is not the protagonist of a typical Down To Earth story. He's the treasurer of a cooperative that runs a fair price shop in a Rajasthan village. Quite successfully, in fact. Lal
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Food aid comes a cropper
the central government's food assistance schemes haven't worked. The 61st round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (nsso) report on Public Distribution System and Other Sources of
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PDS fails in feeding India's poor
India's Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds) gives subsidised essential commodities to economically weaker households. Till 1997, the system had supplied subsidised commodities to
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Retrospect and prospect of food security in North Eastern Hilly region of India
This paper aims to review the existing status, scope and prospects of food securities in the North eastern hilly region (NEHR) states at the macro level and at the same time ground level reality of food security, its status and position at the households' level.
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Indian agriculture: In search of second green revolution
India needs second green revolution to bring food security to its billion plus population, to remove distress of farming community and to make its agriculture globally competitive. For achieving these goals, yield rates of foodgrains, pulses, oilseeds, dairying and poultry, horticultural crops and vegetables needs to be enhanced.
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Criticality of rice and wheat system in sustainable food security in India: An analysis
Rice and wheat are the two most important staple crops, which play a critical role in food security in India. The paper attempts to analyze the changing pattern of foodgrain production system and derive certain policy interventions in view of its relative importance in achieving avowed growth rates envisaged in the XI th five year plan.
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India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture
the circle of Green Revolution seems to be complete. Punjab's agricultural growth of 1.86 per cent last year was just a plot in a declining graph since 1970. It is clear that the farming system
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India must focus on rainfed farming
<table width="579" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="files/images/20070731/px.gif"> <tr><td valign="top"></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons.
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Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development
Book>> Daniel Klingensmith,