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Agriculture

Naveen: Agri policy will boost farmers income

BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the programme for agriculture development in the State should be based on growing population and food requirements of the people.

Publication Date: 
17/05/2010
New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Agriculture, Nutrition, Population, Farmers, Orissa (Odisha), Food Security, Rural Poverty, New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
Food Policy

Cash is kinder than kind

If we cannot spruce up our PDS, the author Manisha Priyam argues, we can wind it up because some Latin American countries have come up with a very workable system; direct cash transfer rather than help in kind.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2010
Manisha Priyam
Governance Now
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Food Policy, Food Supply, India, Food Security, Governance Now, Manisha Priyam
Food Policy

Turning the PDS around

Dr Alok Shukla is among those civil servants who received awards for excellence in public administration from the prime minister on April 21. As secretary, food and civil supplies department, Chhattisgarh, he, along with two of his colleagues, has been credited with turning the much-maligned PDS into a success story.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2010
Governance Now
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Food Policy, Food Supply, Personalities, Chhattisgarh, Food Security, Governance Now
Governance And Institutions

Rights in a living hell

Reversing wrongs could be a better idea than throwing rights at people whose strength is used up entirely in the daily struggle against exclusion. Running to courts to enforce their rights is not even on the periphery of their consciousnes

Publication Date: 
16/05/2010
Kapil Bajaj
Governance Now
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Slums, Sanitation, Health Care, Poverty, Governance And Institutions, Right To Information (RTI), India, Food Security, Governance Now, Kapil Bajaj
Environment

I need food, not Right to Food

The Indian government is adopting a rights-based approach and converting the Directive Principles into Fundamental Rights, which are enforceable in the court of law. That is why we have seen a plethora of rights-based laws recently-right to education, right to employment, right to forest, right to information and now, right to food.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2010
Prasanna Mohanty
Governance Now
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Environment, Education, Legislation, Right To Information (RTI), India, Food Security, Governance Now, Prasanna Mohanty, Health Care
Agriculture

Bt Brinjal: Need to refocus the debate

The Bt brinjal debate has featured technological worries relating to genetically modified crops, which appear relatively minor in comparison to the critical issue of who controls Indian agriculture and therefore who controls food security in India.

Publication Date: 
15/05/2010
Prabir Purkayastha, Satyajit Rath
Economic and Political Weekly
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Agriculture, GM Crops, Health Effects, Food Safety, Biotechnology, Economic and Political Weekly, Food Security, Prabir Purkayastha, Bt Brinjal, Satyajit Rath
Agriculture

Will we have enough food, asks Pawar

Minister for food and civil supplies (MFCS) Sharad Pawar has raised serious questions about the efficacy of the much awaited Food Security Act which is being hotly debated in government.

With names of 1.8 crore families having been removed from the BPL lists prepared by state governments, the Planning Commission is awaiting the final figures of the newly-prepared lists in which the

Publication Date: 
14/05/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Ministry Of Agriculture, Asian Age (New Delhi), Food Security
Agriculture

Low farm output will hit food security

AMIT AGNIHOTRI
NEW DELHI
Low farm productivity in big states like UP, Bihar, Orissa, MP and West Bengal is proving to be a limiting factor to India's food security in the long run

Publication Date: 
14/05/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Crops, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Asian Age (New Delhi), Food Security
Agriculture

Record wheat output likely, Centre upbeat

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: With expectations of a record wheat production this year (2009-10), the Union government is upbeat about providing food grains to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families on a sustained basis under the proposed National Food Security Bill.

Publication Date: 
14/05/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Agriculture, Wheat, Poverty, Ministry Of Agriculture, Hindu (New Delhi), Food Security
Food Policy

Shrinking families force govt to review plan for BPL grain supply

Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE

New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain allocation plans under the proposed Food Security Act.

Publication Date: 
13/05/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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Food Policy, Food Supply, Poverty, Financial Express (New Delhi), Food Security, Planning Commission

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