Food Policy

Assistance for foodgrains scheme (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Assistance for foodgrains scheme (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date: 
16/08/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Security, Food Policy, Food Supply, India, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Wheat, Rice, Food Prices
Food Policy

Expenditure on foodgrain distribution (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Expenditure on foodgrain distribution (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011).

Publication Date: 
16/08/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Food Prices, Rice, Wheat, Food Security, Food Supply, India
Agriculture

Returns to farmers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Returns to farmers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

Publication Date: 
16/08/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Food Prices, Sugarcane
Agriculture

Returns to farmers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)

 

Returns to farmers (Question asked in the Monsoon session of LS 2011)
Publication Date: 
16/08/2011
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Agriculture, Farmers, Food Prices, Sugarcane
Food Policy

Retail chains for agro/food products: Inclusive or elusive?

The supporters of liberalisation often argue that if the modern food retail sector is allowed a full round of liberalisation, it may have various positive outcomes, including a reduction in prices. This article raises a counter question, what if the markets, as it happens in several instances, fail to deliver on account of the structural snags that may continue to persist in a rapidly growing and yet highly segmented economy?

Publication Date: 
13/08/2011
Amita Shah
Economic and Political Weekly
46
33
25-28
Tags:
Globalisation, Agro-Based Industry, India, Food Prices, Developing Countries, Food Security, Food Process Industry, Poverty, Food Standards
Climate Change

We thought trouble was coming

Chris Funk explains how his group last year forecast the drought in Somalia that is now turning into famine — and how that warning wasn't enough.

Publication Date: 
04/08/2011
Chris Funk
Nature
476
7358
7
Tags:
Drought, Somalia, Famine, Agriculture, Africa, Rainfall Pattern, Kenya, Ethiopia, Food Prices, Food Security, Climate Change, Climate Science, Weather Predictions
Health

36pc of Pakistanis undernourished

Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to a

Publication Date: 
04/08/2011
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Malnutrition, Tanzania, Niger, Yemen, Food Prices, Famine, Food Security
Economy

India growth forecast cut to 8.2%

The office of India’s prime minister has downgraded the country’s growth forecast for the current fiscal year to 8.2 per cent from 9 per cent earlier this year, the first official confirmation that

Publication Date: 
02/08/2011
James Fontanella-Khan
Financial Times (London)
Tags:
India, Economy, Economic Development, Cars, Auto Industry, Food Prices, GDP
Agriculture

Agricultural progress and poverty reduction: synthesis report

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal to halve global poverty by 2015 looks increasingly likely, although many countries may fall far short of this goal.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Joe Dewbre, Dalila Cervantes-Godoy, Silvia Sorescu
OECD
Tags:
Agriculture, Poverty, Economic Development, Development, Agricultural Research, Food Prices, India, Global

Feeding Asia in the 21st century: building urban – rural alliances

The International Conference on Asian Food Security (ICAFS) took place on 10–12 August 2011 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore. ICAFS 2011, themed ‘Feeding Asia in the 21st Century: Building Urban-Rural Alliances’, was convened in the context of complex and multifaceted challenges throughout food systems in Asia.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
RSIS Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies
Tags:
Food Security, Food Prices, Food Supply, Asia, India, Nutrition, Health, Agriculture, Food Safety

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