Agriculture

Impacts of increasing production costs on rice price: implications for food security

This study has focused on impacts of increasing production costs on rice price as well food security situation in Bangladesh. The research report has estimated rice demand according to the consumption rate of growing people.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Jayanta Kumar Basak
Unnayan Onneshan-The Innovators
Tags:
Food Security, Food Prices, Bangladesh, Rice, Agriculture, Land Use, Farmers
Food Policy

Global food stamps: An idea worth considering?

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Tim Josling
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
Tags:
Food Security, Food Prices, Mexico, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, India, Food Supply, Developing Countries, Subsidies, South America, Malnutrition, Biofuel, Trade
Agriculture

Freeze the footprint of food

Jason Clay identifies eight steps that, taken together, could enable farming to feed 10 billion people and keep Earth habitable.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475287a.html

Publication Date: 
01/08/2011
Jason Clay
Nature
475
7356
287-289
Tags:
Food Security, Green Revolution, Developing Countries, Food Prices, Africa, Traditional Knowledge, Wasteland Development, Land Ownership, Consumption Patterns, Soil Capability, Agroecosystem Planning
Food Policy

Interstate procurement

Ramana Murthy’s article on “Paddy Glut and Farmer Distress in Andhra Pradesh” (EPW, 16 July 2011) captures the intensity and root cause of the procurement problem in the state though it does not give a clear-cut solution. Murthy simplifies the importance of self-help groups (SHGs) in procuring paddy in Andhra Pradesh (AP), which calls for a discussion. (Letters)

Publication Date: 
30/07/2011
Rohit Joshi, A D Manikandan
Economic and Political Weekly
46
31
4-5
Tags:
Rice, Farmers, Andhra Pradesh, Food Prices, Women, Kerala, Food Security
Food Policy

Report in the matter of: Writ Petition (Civil No.196 OF 2001) People's Union for Civil Liberties vs. Union of India & Ors on public distribution system

Report in the matter of: Writ Petition (Civil No.196 OF 2001) People's Union for Civil Liberties vs. Union of India & Ors on public distribution system.

Publication Date: 
22/07/2011
Supreme Court of India
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Security, India, Poverty, Supreme Court, Starvation, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Himachal Pradesh, Gram Sabhas, Panchayats, Food Prices
Food Policy

Food Crisis in Somalia Is a Famine, U.N. Says

The United Nations on Wednesday officially declared Somalia

Publication Date: 
21/07/2011
Jeffrey Gettleman
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Somalia, Food Safety, Starvation, Drought, Natural Disasters, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Food Prices, Kenya, Ethiopia, Cholera, Health
Climate Change

Navy To Help Climate Scientists In Pirate-Infested Waters

Climate scientists have turned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy robotic measuring devices in the Indian Ocean where pirates have made the area too dangerous for researchers.

About a quarter of the Indian Ocean is now off limits to climate scientists trying to complete a global network of deep ocean devices that gather data crucial to climate change studies and weather foreca

Publication Date: 
20/07/2011
David Fogarty
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Climate Science, United States Of America (US), Australia, Weather Predictions, South Asia, Natural Disasters, Floods, Drought, Food Prices
Energy

General Mills hits out at ethanol subsidies

General Mills hit out at ethanol subsidies as a driver of rising food prices in the US, arguing that they needlessly fuel inflation.

Publication Date: 
18/07/2011
Alan Rappeport
Financial Times (London)
Tags:
United States Of America (US), Ethanol, Biofuel, Subsidies, Food Prices, Maize
Agriculture

Farmers on holiday

Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space. Analysts say this perhaps the first time in the countyr that paddy farmers have resorted to such a drastic step, that too in a green revolution belt.

Publication Date: 
15/07/2011
M Suchitra
Down to Earth
20
4
0
Tags:
Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, Exports, Farmers, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Storage, Green Revolution, Rice, Subsidies, West Godavari
Natural Disasters

Africa drought endangers 500,000 children: UN

The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day.

High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed many poor families in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti into desperate need, UNICEF said.

"We have over two millio

Publication Date: 
11/07/2011
Caroline Copley
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Africa, Drought, Natural Disasters, Children, Food Prices, UNICEF, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Malnutrition, Child Health, Immunisation, Food Aid

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