A high-level technical consultative meeting that will begin in Nepal today (Wednesday) is likely to adopt a 10-year roadmap for adaptation to climate change in the eastern Himalayas sub-region for ensuring food, water and energy security.
The 3-day consultative meeting on Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihood, and Bio-cultural Heritage will be held in Kathmandu.

 
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed concern over a large section of the population still suffering from poverty and hunger and said more efforts were needed to achieve higher agricultural growth and ensure food security for the people.

The government is using the proposed National Food Security Act as an excuse not to distribute grain to the needy even as tonnes rot away in its warehouses
Nitin Sethi | TNN

It is important to design policies to pay farmers the real cost of growing food if we want to build local food sufficiency

P. Sainath

The NREGS is restricted. The PDS is targeted. Only exploitation is universal.

Rain deficiency in eastern UP, Bihar and Jharkhand has dented the government

  
The Centre is finding it difficult to fix the criteria for identifying families living below the poverty line

 ACKNOWLEDGING that the rotting foodgrain was

BHUBANESWAR: The Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme was launched by the Orissa Government to ensure food security to the poor.

S. Vydhianathan and R.K. Radhakrishnan

Technological interventions, innovative and fool-proof delivery mechanisms, constant reviews and fixing responsibility at each level ensure that an effective delivery system is in place.

Rice at Re.1 a kg is an essential part of Tamil Nadu's Public Distribution System.