India

 Right to food upheld

The Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to implement the famine code to tide over the crisis caused by the current drought. The code

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
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Food Supply, Drought, Supreme Court, India, Rajasthan
Food Policy

Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003

Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003.

Judgement Date: 
02/05/2003
Tags:
Food Security, Mid-Day Meal Programme, Food Supply, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India
Poverty

 Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society groups under the 'right to food' campaign. They are objecting to the exercise on two counts: firstly, the crite

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Supply, Food Aid, Drought, Migration, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Information, NGO, India, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Food Security
Climate Change

Climate change and human health: Risks and responses

This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2003
WHO
Tags:
Food Supply, Health Effects, Waterborne diseases, Climate Change, IPCC, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Sea Level Rise, Natural Disasters, Diarrhoea, Famine, Sanitation, Vector Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Food Security, Rainfall
Agriculture

 Bird vs bread & butter

A controversy is raging over ambelopoulia

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Supply, Endangered Species, Birds, Cyprus
India

 In Brief

Philippines joins CNG bandwagon: Yet another country attempting to switch its

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, Food Crops, Food Supply, Food Contamination, Fish, CNG, Medicinal Plants, Mercury, Genetic Resources, Africa, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, United States Of America (US), California, India, Delhi
Poverty

 Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Ashfak Bhari
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Food Supply, Starvation, Food Aid, WTO, Finance, Poverty, Human Rights, India
India

 Winds of change?

Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before

Publication Date: 
14/10/2002
Biswanath Dash
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Food Supply, Finance, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Economy

 guatemala

Thousands of children under five years of age are suffering from malnourishment after a drought devastated subsistence crops in Guatemala. This was recently revealed by Deborah Hines, un World

Publication Date: 
30/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Food Supply, Malnutrition, Drought, Guatemala
Climate Change

Climate change and agricultural vulnerability

The methodology and results reported in this study form a first comprehensive and integrated global ecological

Publication Date: 
01/01/2002
Gunther Fischer, Mahendra Shah, Harrij van Velthuizen
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tags:
Forests, Land Use, Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Multicrop Systems, Legumes, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Trade, Climate Impacts, Consumption Patterns, Statistics, Food Security

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