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Economy

Rebalancing global growth

Beyond Doha Round technicalities, the broader economic debate is focused on

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Bridges
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Trade, Economy, Exports, Imports, Developing Countries, Globalisation, Services, Minerals, Iron And Steel Industry, China, Subsidies, WTO, Food Prices, Wheat, Food Security
Poverty

Is hunger in the world on the rise?

In its latest report on food insecurity, the FAO asserted that 915 million people were undernourished in 2008, and the figure is estimated to rise to 1.02 billion in 2009. The alarming numbers raise the twin questions of how the estimates are derived and how reliable they are.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Peter Svedberg
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Food Security, Global, FAO, Food Supply, Nutrition, India, Malnutrition, Africa, Poverty, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria
Environment

Everest brown haze puzzles scientists

Italian scientists have confirmed a

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Kathmandu Post (Nepal)
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Italy, Nepal, Himalaya, Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Solar Radiation, Glacial Melt, Urban Air Quality, Health Care, Agriculture, Food Security, Green House Gases, UNEP
Land

The forgotten billion: MDG achievement in the drylands

This report maps the

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
UNCCD Secretariat
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Deserts, Desert Spread, Land, Food Security, Poverty, Climate Adaptation
Poverty

National Rural Livelihoods Mission: framework for implementation

The basic purpose of National Rural Livelihoods Mission is to put in place a dedicated and sensitive support structure from the national level to the sub-district level which will
focus on the poor, build and sustain their organizations at different levels.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Ministry of Rural Development
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Poverty, Rural Development, India, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), NGO, Food Security
Poverty

Paths to 2015: MDG priorities in Asia and the Pacific

There are only five years left to reach 2015 in achieving the MDGs. World leaders are once again gathering at the United Nations High-level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs in September 2010 in New York to assess some of the likely outcomes on present trends, identify some of the weakest areas of performance, and identify priorities for accelerated action.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
UNESCAP
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Poverty, Food Security, Asia, India, Health, Infrastructure Development, Economic Development, Finance, Food Prices, Child Health, Sanitation, Malnutrition
Food Policy

1.3L tonnes of grain wasted?

SC Commissioners On Food Dub Negligence By Officials as

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Food Crops, Food Policy, Food Supply, Food Security, India, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies, Supreme Court
Food Policy

NAC pares down its wish list on food security

Smita Gupta

New Delhi: For the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), drafting a Food Security Bill that will pass muster with the government is proving harder than it appeared at the outset. At the NAC's fourth meeting on Monday, informed sources said, Ms.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Food Policy, Food Supply, Nutrition, Food Prices
Food Policy

NAC to consult ministries on FSA

FOOD SECURITY: RELYING ON RURAL MINISTRY

THE National Advisory Council is still working on the amount of grain to be distributed to each family under the Food Security Act. It will hold consultations with ministries of rural development and food and the Planning Commission before it firms up its suggestions for the proposed legislation.

Publication Date: 
31/08/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Food Supply, India, Food Policy, Rural Development
Food Policy

NAC to discuss food security proposals today

Keen on a holistic approach to food security issues, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council will meet on Monday to discuss proposals from a working group on the Right to Food Bill, which it would recommend to the Government.

The framework proposed by the working group, headed by human rights activist Harsh Mander, presents

Publication Date: 
30/08/2010
Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Food Policy, Food Security, India, Nutrition, Food Supply

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