First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Will Provide Info On Market-Based Demand, Nutrition Needs Of Vegetables The state agriculture department is all set to launch a GPS-based service for providing polyhouse farmers accurate information on market-based demand and nutrition needs for vegetables cultivated inside the translucent tents.
The Korean Government will provide $3.0 million support to Bangladesh to improve its poor people's access to food in the disaster-prone regions. The fund, to be disbursed under a three-year project
<p>Read text of the landmark National Food Security Bill, 2013. This promises to give right to the country's 80 crore people to get 5 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs 1-3 per kg.</p>
It suggests implementation of health, nutrition and development programmes A study by the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, on the death of tribal infants in Attappady noted that “high maternal under-nutrition of 48 per cent of adult women leading to chronic energy deficiency” resulted in the death of a large number of infants.
Every year, 800,000 children die in Pakistan and 35 per cent of these occur due to malnutrition. The risk of death is nine times higher for a child suffering from malnutrition compared to a child with
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme could become a lucrative monopoly of contractors and packaged food manufacturers with the Women and Child Development Ministry sticking to its stand
The UPA’s food security legislation, introduced first as an ordinance and then as a bill pending discussion in Parliament, comes at a time when BJP-led Chhattisgarh already has a law in place. Each legislation
State govt says the ordinance will lead to lower entitlement of foodgrains from the current 35 kg to 25 kg The Gujarat government has alleged that the Centre's National Food Security Ordinance (NFSO), which awaits Parliament approval is fraught with inconsistencies and will neither fulfill the nutritional needs nor will it supplement hunger. Incidentally, this is the issue which Chief Minister Narendra Modi raised in his speech on Independence Day.
Weeks after the death of 23 children in the mid-day meal tragedy in Bihar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day speech on Thursday said the scheme will be reformed and “concrete measures”
Slogan-shouting TDP members disrupt Lok Sabha; Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj asks them to stage protest outside House The Lok Sabha on Tuesday made an attempt to discuss the ambitious National Food Security Bill but the debate was disrupted by Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members who shouted slogans in the well.