Mahim Pratap Singh

Bhopal: The State government

This paper argues that the disproportionate attention that policy solutions to the food price crisis give to rural dwellers is probably misplaced. Although in developing countries rural poverty is often deeper and more widespread than urban poverty, rural dwellers are often net producers of food, frequently of the very staples whose prices are rising.

NEW DELHI: As food prices soar to the skies, the poor are eating less and the Government has camouflaged this brand of inflation by combining food with other commodities like steel and metals whose prices are falling, said environment activist Vandana Shiva here on Thursday.
Hunger: causes, cures

Anuradha Mascarenhas

Even as the country is in the early stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child

Pune Even as the country is in the nascent stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child's growth laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently, Purandar taluka in Pune district has taken up a project of monitoring 154 children with

Meena Menon
Her name is also Kalavati. It is very unlikely though she will have any famous visitor in her humble hut at Mansudhavadi village of Dharni taluk in Amravati district. In March this year, when Kalavati Javarkar gave birth to her second child, a daughter, her one-year-old son Shubham was in grade three of malnutrition, rather severe. He weighed 6.6 kg instead of the ideal 10 kg.

Country's more than 40 percent children aged under five years and one-third of mothers suffer from malnutrition, a nutrition specialist of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) said here on Monday.

Country

The budget reiterates the government

Life is grim for the tribals living in the reserve forest areas of the country, who face pressure from corrupt officials on one hand, and the environment lobby on the other.

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