Health

What America can teach us about mid-day meals

JAYA JUMRANI

Publication Date: 
21/08/2009
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Health, Child Health, Mid-Day Meal Programme, Poverty, United States Of America (US), India
Health

 Tough nut to crack

Feed malnutrition with policy India has eight million malnourished children. Yet the country has no policy on what food should be given to treat malnutrition. Lack of policy has led international development agencies to adopt varied approaches like giving highly nutritious ready-to-use food. Such measures have often led to confusion and stand-offs with the government. unicef, for example,

Publication Date: 
14/08/2009
Sumana Narayanan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Health, Health Policy, Child Health, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF, India, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh
Health

MP equals Ethiopia in human index

MUKESH RANJAN
To witness abject poverty, as it exists in subSaharan Ethiopia, one need not travel to that country.
Similar situation exists in India, as Madhya Pradesh (MP) has human development indicators which match the Ethiopian reality.

Publication Date: 
10/08/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Starvation, Women, Children, Child Health, Madhya Pradesh
Health

Why the debate over organic food is redundant

Organic farming doesn't provide more nutritional food and it may not even be more sustainable

Publication Date: 
08/08/2009
New Scientist
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Nutrition, Organic Foods, Health Effects, Health, Energy Efficiency, Pesticide Use, Pesticide Residues, Biodiversity Conservation, Food Security
Health

WB to provide $ 8 lakh grants to lower malnutrition

World Bank will provide 40,000 US dollar as grant to each of the 20 selected civil society organisations of South Asian countries to address the issue of improving infant and child nutrition.

Publication Date: 
05/08/2009
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Child Health, World Bank, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India
Health

Govt crosses sword with Unicef over serving packaged food

Should India Allow Intl Bodies To Operate Here If They Don

Publication Date: 
03/08/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Packaging Industry, Health, Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF, India
Health

Organic food: FSA study leaves bad taste in the mouth

The findings from the FSA's organic food review have added little to our knowledge but left consumers short-changed on real benefits of organic food.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Tom Levitt
Ecologist
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Organic Farming, Nutrition, Organic Foods, Health Effects, Health, Pesticide Use, Pesticide Residues, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Health

Govt stops UNICEF from giving French protein paste to children

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Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Children, Child Health, Ministry of Women and Child Development, UNICEF, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh
Agriculture

The food price crisis and urban food insecurity

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.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Marc J. Cohen, James L. Garrett
IIED
Tags:
Urban Agriculture, Food Prices, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Consumption Patterns, Urbanisation, India, Global, Food Security
Poverty

Poverty and human development in Sri Lanka

This report traces the causes of poverty in Sri Lanka and provides policy recommendations, especially for areas of conflict. It argues that agriculture suffers from low productivity and competitiveness.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Guanghua Wan, Ramani Gunatilaka, Shiladitya Chatterjee
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Food Supply, Nutrition, Development, Health, Rehabilitation, Poverty, Education, Sri Lanka, Food Security

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