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EGoM on food security Bill to meet on May 4, decide on poverty estimates

Saubhadro Chatterji & Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 30, 2010, 1:02 IST

Publication Date: 
30/04/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Poverty, Food Security, Planning Commission
Health

Make sure infants are fed: NGOs

New Delhi: Demanding that children below two years be recognised as a special vulnerable group in the Food Security Act, activists have underlined the urgency of tackling child malnutrition at a war footing.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Children, Health Care, Child Health, NGO, India, Food Security
Food Policy

Central government not serious on Food Security Act: BJP

Bhartiya Janata Party state vice president and MP Maya Singh alleged the UPA government that it is avoiding to fulfil promise it made during the general election even as its completion of one year in the office is close on heels. Its procrastination poses serious question on its credibility.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Prices, Madhya Pradesh, Food Security
Food Policy

Rio plans food sufficiency in Nagaland by 2020

Kohima, April 27: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has announced that the State will attain food sufficiency by 2020 and called upon for better coordination between agri and allied sectors.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Supply, Nagaland, Food Security
Climate Change

Centre has not addressed climate change impact on food security

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The Centre has so far not addressed the problem of climate change impact on agriculture and food sector, a panel of experts participating in a national conference on

Publication Date: 
26/04/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, India, Food Security
Food Policy

Envisioning a role for aadhaar in the public distribution system

The Unique Identification number (Aadhaar) was conceived by the Indian government as a means for residents to clearly and uniquely verify their identity anywhere in the country. The mandate for

Publication Date: 
26/04/2010
Unique Identification Authority of India
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Security, India, Subsidies, Food Policy
Agriculture

The analytics of the agriculture-industry relationship in a closed economy: A case study of India

The barriers created by stunted agricultural growth for industrial development have constituted a recurrent theme in debates on Indian economic policy. This essay brings out these debates in terms of the disproportionality caused by the disparate rates of industrial and agricultural growth.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2010
Rajiv Jha
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Agriculture, Green Revolution, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Supply, Consumption Patterns, Industry, India, Food Security
Food Policy

A right denied

The real purpose of the draft Food Security Bill is to replace a universal system of public food distribution with a targeted system.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2010
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Food Crops, Food Supply, Nutrition, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Frontline (Chennai), Food Security
Health

Blinkered vision

The government has chosen to look at the problem from the wrong end of the looking glass, the survival end.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2010
Vandana Prasad
Frontline (Chennai)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Development, Children, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Supreme Court, UNICEF, Frontline (Chennai), Food Security, Vandana Prasad
Food Policy

More grain for more poor under food Act

Govt Agrees To Provide 35Kg Of Foodgrain Every Month To 8.5Cr BPL Families

Publication Date: 
23/04/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Subsidies, Poverty, India, Food Security, Planning Commission

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