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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%20Wo |
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Displacement
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pically 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 notifie |
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RTI rescues Rajasthan women from hunger, deprivation by Mamta Jaitly
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ncy, rarely witnessed elsewhere. What is less known is that it has also been able to help many single women living in extreme penury to derive real benefit from the government’s food and social security schemes, something they had not been able to do all these years.
In fact, Vijaypura panchayat could well be a model for how India can work towards achieving its targets under the UN Millenium Development Goal 1, which seeks to pull people o |
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How to rebuild confidence in food markets after this summer’s spike in wheat prices
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t 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 event |
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We have given food security model: Raman
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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 food
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Indian States Use Technology to Build Accountability
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igrant 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 experi |
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River ‘god’ throws out Dow from Pune
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e site in Pune’s Chakan. The land was allotted in 2007.
Dow India issued a statement today, three days after informing the MIDC, confirming the pullout. “Due to continuing safety and security concerns driven by (the) unlawful agitation at the site, Dow India has determined the location to be untenable for the establishment of its R&D facility and has submitted an application to return the land to the MIDC.”
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Grains of change
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t 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, during pe |
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Unwelcome surprise by Jayati Ghosh
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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 |
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Indian trade unions strike against price rises
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etables and milk must be curbed by the authorities.
They are also calling for employment protection in recession-hit sectors, strict enforcement of all basic labour laws and creation of a social security fund for workers in the unorganised sectors.
This is the second strike since the government raised fuel prices in June in an attempt to cut the budget deficit.
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