Economy

Conditional cash transfer programs - A magic bullet for reducing poverty?

In 1997, the Government of Mexico introduced a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program called Programa de Education, Salud, Y Alimentacion (Progresa), providing assistance to about 300, 000 extremely poor households. The essential premise of a CCT program is a cash transfer to households, conditioned on their participation in health, nutrition, and education services.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2007
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Poverty, Finance, Economy, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Mexico, Education, South America, Nutrition, Nicaragua, Developing Countries, Consumption Patterns
Economy

Tripura human development report 2007

This report describes and analyses human development in the State of Tripura and its constituent districts and blocks. Tripura is a State of three million persons located in the North East of India and surrounded on three sides by Bangladesh.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2007
Government of Tripura
Tags:
Nutrition, Development, Health, Economy, People, Political Decentralisation, Education, Tripura
Health

Long-term changes in Indian food basket and nutrition

The food consumption pattern in India is diversifying towards high value commodities. The decline in per capita consumption of cereals, in particular, coarse cereals, has worsened the nutritional status of the rural poor. On the basis of National Sample Survey data on dietary patterns and consumer expenditure, this article examines empirical evidence on the nature and extent of long-term changes in consumption patterns and nutritional status of various socio-economic groups at the household level in rural and urban India.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2007
Madan M Dey, Mruthyunjaya, Praduman Kumar
Economic and Political Weekly
3567-3572
Tags:
Consumption Patterns, India, Nutrition, Rural Poverty, Urban Habitat
Agriculture

Aquatic vegetation - A potential support for rural economy

Aquatic vegetation is generally considered as nuisance plant communities which cause hindrance to aquaculture practice, resulting in the loss of aquaculture yields. Despite all these disadvantages, the importance of freshwater vegetation and their resources to human welfare can not be neglected rather invites attention too.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2007
R. N. Mandal, G. S. Saha
Agricultural Situation in India
64
6
251-255
Tags:
Aquatic Plants, Water Treatment Technology, Natural Fertilisers, Vegetables, Food Security, West Bengal, Food Supply, Medicinal Plants, Bihar, Nutrition, Wetlands, India, Agriculture
Industry

 At another table

A UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) regional workshop on street food in Asia, held in Djakarta, Indonesia, in 1986, tried to define street food. It described a wide range of ready-to-eat food and beverages sold and sometimes prepared in public places, notably by the roadside. It stated that like fast food, the final preparation of street food occurs when the customer orders the meal.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nutrition, Fast Foods, UN, FAO, Asia, Indonesia, Food Security
Health

Scales, Dont carp

If Punjab da puttar Maima Singh from Rathiya village near Patiala can eat fish, anyone can. Punjabis, who love their butter chicken and their mutton

Publication Date: 
18/06/2007
Debarshi Dasgupta
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nutrition, Fish, Health Care, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab
India

 Knowledge of medicines by indigenous communities receding

It's quite well-known that indigenous communities share an intricate relationship with their environments. Their understanding of plants, also called ethnobotanical knowledge, is crucial to the

Publication Date: 
14/06/2007
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nutrition, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Child Health, Nutritional Diseases, Botany, Research, Spain, United States Of America (US), Bolivia
Health

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on mid-day meals dated 08/06/2007

Judgement of the Delhi High Court on the decision of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) awarding contracts
for providing cooked mid-day meals to students of Primary schools in Delhi dated 08/06/2007.

Judgement Date: 
08/06/2007
Tags:
Mid-Day Meal Programme, Child Health, Nutrition, Delhi, Anti-Poverty Programmes, High Court, Municipal Corporation
Health

Food, nutrition, physical activity, and the prevention of cancer: a global perspective

This report has two overall general purposes. The first is to summarise, assess, and judge the most comprehensive body of evidence yet collected and displayed on the subject of food, nutrition, physical activity, body composition, and the risk of cancer, throughout the life-course.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2007
American Institute for Cancer Research
Tags:
Nutrition, Food Preservation, Health Effects, Cancer, Infectious Diseases, Nutritional Diseases, Research, Global
Health

Nutritional intake in India 2004-2005

This report presents the information on nutritional intake by the Indian population. Among the different nutrients only three nutrients: viz. calorie, protein and fat - are discussed in this report. This report gives an idea about intake of these nutrients in different monthly per capita expenditure classes from different items of food.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2007
National Sample Survey Organisation
Tags:
Food Supply, Nutrition, Food Standards, India

Pages