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  Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Agricultural Research, Food Policy, Malnutrition, Starvation, Health, Children, World Bank, Africa, Asia, China, Global, Developing Countries, Food Security
India

  Food for thought

Newspapers come replete with news of starvation deaths while stocks go waste in government storage houses. Food scarcity in India is a more a human-made problem that one brought upon by nature's

Publication Date: 
Saturday, September 29, 2001
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Environment, Starvation, Food Storage, India, Food Security, Agriculture
India

 Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research Institute IRRI in the Philippines. His contribution to the global food security has e

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Plant Breeding, Rice, Malnutrition, Health Effects, Poverty, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Philippines, India, Developing Countries, Food Security
India

 The truth of grains

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question that of local food security.

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Food Supply, Starvation, Food Storage, Water Conservation, India, Orissa (Odisha), Food Security
India

 Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
Anju Sharma
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Grasslands, Mountains, Alps, Agriculture, Legumes, Animal Feed, Milk Products, Food Policy, Farmers, Grasses, Tourism, Subsidies, GATT, Switzerland, India, Food Security
India

 Who is protected?

The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it was first moved in the Parliament.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2001
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Plant Breeding, Seeds, Farmers, Biodiversity, GATT, Legislation, Human Rights, Parliament, Community Groups, India, Food Security
Energy

 STARVATION AMIDST PLENTY

The Supreme Court has directed six drought-prone states to reopen closed public distribution shops. The court's directive was given in response to a lawsuit filed by the People's Union for Civil

Publication Date: 
30/08/2001
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Starvation, Legislation, Supreme Court, Food Security
Climate Change

 Stilted against South

Climate change could rob developing nations of its food security

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Agriculture, Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Science, Developing Countries, Food Security, Crops
Fisheries

 UNITED NATIONS

A UN commission has agreed on setting up, for the first time, global principles for assessing the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, a division of the World

Publication Date: 
14/08/2001
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Seeds, Genetic Resources, Genetic Engineering, UN, Food Security
Food Policy

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding the issue of food security in India, 23/07/2011

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the People's Union for Civil Liberties Vs Union of India & Ors dated 23/07/2001 regarding the issue of food security in India.

Judgement Date: 
23/07/2001
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Food Security, India, Supreme Court, Food Supply, Government Of India (GOI)

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