|
Total Matching Records found : 351 |
|
|
GENDER
|
|
|
kely Impact on Indian Women by Roopam Singh & Ranja Sengupta, December, 2009, CENTAD,
http://www.esocialsciences.com/data/articles/Document1432010510.149914.pdf
# Factsheet: Women Farmers and Food Security, produced by The Hunger Project,
http://www.thp.org/system/files/Factsheet+on+Women+Farmers+and+Food+Security.pdf
% Agriculture Sector in India,
http://ncw.nic.in/pdfreports/Impact%20of%20WTO%20Women%20in%20Agriculture.pdf
* Report o |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
Displacement
|
|
|
nd typically multicropped - is capable of producing close to 1 million tons of foodgrains. If SEZs are seen to be successful in the future and more cultivated land is acquired, they will endanger the Food Security of the country.
The latest available statistics on Special Economic Zones show that the Board of Approvals at the Ministry of Commerce, the central body authorised to clear SEZ proposals, has approved 578 SEZs of which 315 have been no |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
How to rebuild confidence in food markets after this summer’s spike in wheat prices
|
|
|
h just 8% of the world’s wheat has produced embargoes and panic buying. What are importers to make of that? For some the answer seems to be obvious: don’t trust markets; grow it yourself; Food Security begins at home.
This is deeply depressing. Self-sufficiency is inefficient and shallow markets are more volatile than deep ones. And it will get worse. On the current best guesses of scientists, climate change is likely to produce more |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
We have given Food Security model: Raman
|
|
|
lied sectors was at 4.94%, which I think leaves scope for improvement.
You have a much talked-about food guarantee programme. Many say it should be replicated at the national level.
The Food Security model has been developed by Chhattisgarh government over the last six years and will be useful for the country. After all, wheat, rice or salt should reach the last man.
I have suggested to the Centre to replicate the
|
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
Indian States Use Technology to Build Accountability
|
|
|
ike migrant labourers and construction workers. Similarly, fixing the monthly foodgrain entitlement on the basis of number of family members seems a relatively more just and realistic way of ensuring Food Security at individual level. UID would be helpful in this effort.
The Government of India is already taking recourse to biometric technology to empower beneficiaries under the MGNREGA, and to reduce the involvement of middlemen. As a first e |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
Grains of change
|
|
|
rnment said it had decided to allocate an additional 25 lakh tonnes of grain at BPL prices for six months. It also filed a 19-page affidavit in the Supreme Court explaining how its order could impact Food Security. Food Security is, in part, a factor of availability and productivity. The food ministry pointed out in the affidavit that, were the government to limit procurement to its storage capacities, duri |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
Unwelcome surprise by Jayati Ghosh
|
|
|
In pushing for a greatly truncated PDS, the Food Security Bill proposed by the NAC, which has many right-to-food activists, undermines the PDS itself.
ENSURING Food Security was the big promise of United Progressive Alliance-2. The promise to enact legislation to ensure a minimum quantity of affordable food to all poor households in the country was part of the election manifesto of the Congre |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
PM tells SC to lay off policy issues
|
|
|
tribute 25 lakh tonnes of free foodgrains among BPL families, while indicating that it did not intend to pursue the matter further. "This is a very big gesture which will go a long way to ensure Food Security," said a Bench comprising Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma.
Significantly, government had stressed that the release of 25 lakh tonnes of foodgrains was only an ad hoc measure.
The Bench even expressed satisfaction |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
SC shouldn’t go into policymaking: Singh by Ashis Chakrabarti and Samanwaya Rautray
|
|
|
of its people below the poverty line.
To the extent possible, his government has addressed the issue and there has been no rise in the price of grain since 2004, he said. He also referred to the Food Security bill on which a group of ministers is already working.
In the Supreme Court today, the Centre virtually ruled out supply of “free” foodgrain to the poor through the targeted PDS but listed several proposals that sought to ad |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
|
|
Foodgrains order will hit farmers, impact Food Security: Govt to SC by Krishnadas Rajagopal
|
|
|
Food Ministry today told the Supreme Court that its suggestion on limiting food procurement to available storage facilities, if put to action, would hit the poor farmer and “drastically impact Food Security of the nation”.
In a 19-page affidavit, C Vishwanath, joint secretary in the Ministry, said: “If Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state government agencies that do the work of procurement were to limit procurement only to |
|
|
Read More |
|
|
