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
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Wheat, Food Prices, Food Supply, Trade, Exports, Kazakhstan
Food Policy

 South Asia

Second deluge

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

Kill king corn

Zea mays has become the very emblem of plenty, with rich golden

Publication Date: 
11/10/2007
Nature
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Agriculture, Food Prices, Food Supply, Climate Mitigation, Biofuel, Food Security
Climate Change

 Care turns down US $46 million food aid

The international charity group Care has turned down a donation of us $46 million a year worth of grain from the us government saying the country's food aid system does "more harm than good'.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2007
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Food Prices, Food Supply, Food Aid, NGO, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries
India

 Politics behind Maharashtra's milk strike

The milk producers agitation in Maharashtra remains unresolved. The state-wide milk bandh in the last week of June, demanding a price hike for buffalo milk, has brought to the fore a politically

Publication Date: 
30/07/2007
Atul Joshi
Down to Earth
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Buffalo, Milk, Food Prices, Farmers, Cooperatives, India, Maharashtra, Kolhapur (D)
India

 Give small players in food retail a new deal

the unrest over Reliance's plans to enter the retail fresh vegetable and fruit market is only to be expected. It is just about possible that its entry into this sector will not completely drive out

Publication Date: 
29/06/2007
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Vegetables, Food Prices, Food Supply, Food Process Industry, Food Storage, Climate Equity, Unemployment
Agriculture

Oilseeds in non-traditional areas

The rising gap between demand and production of edible oils has led to a fast rise in imports of vegetable oils since the eighties. About one half of current consumption of edible oils in recent years (1998-2002) is being met through imports. The policy of self-sufficiency in edible oils resulted in higher level of protection of oilseeds.

Publication Date: 
28/02/2007
Agricultural Situation in India
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Agriculture, Oilseeds, India, Edible Oils, Food Prices, Trade
India

 India becomes second largest producer of cotton

India has toppled the us to become the second largest producer of cotton, after China, states the cotton fiscal of 2006-2007. Statistics also show that by October-end, the annual cotton farmers'

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Sourav Mishra
Down to Earth
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Cotton, Food Prices, Textile Industry, Trade, Farmers, Genetic Engineering, India, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Statistics, Debt

Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization

The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2006
Ellen Messer, Marc. J. Cohen
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Conflicts, Food Security, Globalisation, Trade, Exports, War, Human Rights, Poverty, Food Prices

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