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Food Policy

The users manual on codex: a contemporary approach to food quality and safety standards

This manual is developed to provide fundamental information about Codex in a standardized, logical and systematic manner. It comprises eight sections. Each section consists of specific training modules with a provision for the inclusion of optional modules that may be combined and customized to meet the requirements.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2007
FAO
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Food Standards, Food Contamination, Food Additives, Organic Foods, Food Process Industry, Trade, WTO, Pesticides And Toxins, Pesticide Residues, Food Safety, CODEX, Public Sector, India, Global
Food Policy

 PDS protests in West Bengal

bithari village, Swarupnagar block, North 24-Paraganas: the men of Uttarpara hamlet in Bithari are hiding out in the fields every night despite the winter chill in the air. Better brave the cold

Publication Date: 
29/11/2007
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Down to Earth
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Rice, Food Policy, Food Supply, Starvation, Singur, Trade, Conflicts, Exports, Anti-Poverty Programmes, West Bengal, 24 Parganas (S), 24 Parganas (N), Birbhum, Murshidabad, Food Security, Corruption
Agriculture

 Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

In February this year, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar announced that the country could export wheat in the near future. "If the current weather persists and the country's wheat production

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Wheat, Animal Feed, Fodder, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Supply, Trade, Farmers, Imports, India, Food Security
Food Policy

 Bread prices spiral in Central Asia

As wheat prices soar across Central Asia, officials in Kazakhstan, the region's key grain supplier, have resorted to controlling exports to stem rising domestic costs. Experts fear the move will

Publication Date: 
30/10/2007
Down to Earth
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Wheat, Food Prices, Food Supply, Trade, Exports, Kazakhstan
Food Policy

Its High Time We Get A National Food Security Commission

If India wants total food security, farming must be remunerative. Developing channels for farmers to sell wherever they get the best price is key

ANJANI SINHA

Publication Date: 
20/10/2007
Tehelka (New Delhi)
Tags:
Organic Farming, Food Crops, Food Policy, India, Food Security
Food Policy

 South Asia

Second deluge

Publication Date: 
14/10/2007
Down to Earth
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Potato, Food Policy, Food Prices, Trade, Floods, Aid, Imports, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Food Policy

 In short

eu dumping rules: On June 12, European Union (EU) laid down rules to check illegal dumping of hazardous materials in developing countries. An update of 1993 EU regulations, the new rules require

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
Down to Earth
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Wetlands, Food Policy, Food Standards, Food Contamination, Shipping, Hazardous Products, Food Safety, GMOs, Wetland Conservation, Biotechnology, UN, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Agriculture

 Rising popularity of artificial vanilla puts Kerala farmers in distress

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Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
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Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Standards, Food Adulteration, Food Process Industry, Health Effects, Waste Conversion, Farmers, Food Safety, Cooperatives, India, Kerala
Food Policy

 What's on show

Is our ice cream natural or synthetic? The 2005 Export-Import Bank of India (exim bank) study on vanilla and its potential in India says that labelling laws for ice cream can create a viable

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
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Vanila, Food Additives, Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954, Food Safety, United States Of America (US), India
India

 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

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Food Aid, Consumption Patterns, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Food Security

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