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Food Policy

Food security assured for Nagalands poor

KOHIMA, April 19: The Nagaland Government envisages implementing the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to ensure food security for the poor. The distribution system benefits identified poor families under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and other population living below poverty line.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Food Supply, Poverty, Nagaland, Food Security
Climate Change

Global warming reduces grain output in inflation-ridden India

Rising temperatures and inadequate rainfall in India is stagnating grain output, threatening food security in the world

Publication Date: 
20/04/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Monsoons, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), India, Food Security, Rainfall
Poverty

EGoM to decide on poverty estimate

Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 20, 2010, 1:20 IST

The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) will decide on the final poverty estimates to be used for the Food Security Bill, though the hurdle of building a consensus within states is yet to be overcome.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Supply, Poverty, Food Security, Planning Commission
Food Policy

Change in Bytes `UID will ensure food security'

SRIRAM RAGHAVAN

Publication Date: 
20/04/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Supply, Poverty, Technology, Food Security
Poverty

PlanCom adopts new poverty estimate

The Planning Commission has adopted the Tendulkar committee

Publication Date: 
19/04/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Poverty, India, Food Security, Planning Commission
Food Policy

Punjab, Haryana to have more wheat-storage space

A move that may help check the rotting of wheat and paddy stock kept in the open due to paucity of covered space in Punjab and Haryana, the Food Corporation of India has decided to create 112 lakh metric tonne of additional storage capacity in these two states.

Publication Date: 
19/04/2010
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Wheat, Food Storage, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Food Security
Food Policy

Food security for all

Arjun Sengupta

Publication Date: 
19/04/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Poverty, Food Security
Food Policy

Trivialising food security

It was an election promise of the Congress Party. Then, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance came back to power, it was part of its 100-day agenda. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even declared,

Publication Date: 
17/04/2010
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Food Policy, Food Prices, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Legislation, India, Food Security
Science And Technology

A 2020 vision for global science

We live in a world that is more interconnected - and more vulnerable - than ever before. The fallout from the banking crisis was worldwide. Concerns about infectious diseases have risen and fallen in the public's consciousness, and while no catastrophic pandemic has yet hit us, it is clear that preventive measures require global monitoring and cooperation.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2010
New Scientist
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Tags:
Water Resources, Climate Change, Population, Biodiversity, Science And Technology, Science, Scientists, Education, Food Security
Food Policy

Plan panel meet on FSA today

Will Discuss Tendulkar Committee Figure On BPL Population

Publication Date: 
17/04/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Supply, Subsidies, Poverty, India, Food Security, Planning Commission

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