This note presents the response of the Right to Food Campaign to the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) that was tabled in the Lok Sabha on 22 December 2011. While the proposed National Food Security Act
This report is based on several visits to villages and slums across Karnataka and information collected under RTI by several organisations working towards eradicating malnutrition in the State and is being
The Bill interprets food security only as distribution of cereals and cooked meals and is completely silent on other important components of food security. There is no commitment towards nutritional security
The central government has prepared a draft National Food Security Bill (NFSB). This draft, aside from ignoring all the demands of the right to food campaign, junks many essential provisions of the “NAC
Microcredit/microfinance as a poverty alleviation strategy: implications for right to food and livelihoods (Note for Fourth National Convention of Right to Food and Work Campaign, August 2010).
Right to Food campaign has now adopted, moving beyond the entitlement criteria to restructuring agriculture policies in such a way that it does not compromise on food security, livelihood security and thereby the right to food.
<p>A review of implementation of NREGS in West Bengal. Concludes that state’s NREGS programme is abysmally poor, despite the fact that there are committees and councils existing at various levels to monitor and review the programme. <br />
An Act to ensure dignified economic and social access to adequate food and other requirements of good nutrition for all residents of the country, at all times, in pursuance of their fundamental right to be free from hunger, malnutrition and other deprivations associated with the lack of food.
