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
Gargi Parsai
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet today gave its nod for tabling the Madhya Pradesh Kapas Beej Vidheyak 2010 (Madhya Pradsh Cotton Seeds Bill 2010) in the coming monsoon session of the Assembly. After promulgation of the Act, the state government will have full control over cottonseed rates and farmers will be able to get the same at reasonable rates, an official release said here today.
P. Sainath The official line is simple. Since we cannot afford to feed all the hungry, there must only be as many hungry as we can afford to feed.
Himanshi Dhawan & Mahendra Kumar Singh | TNN
Food Security Bill Set For Radical Rewrite; To Benefit More, Add Nutritional Value M Rajshekhar NEW DELHI THE National Advisory Council (NAC), it appears, is set to radically rewrite the the Food Security Bill.
In this paper OPHI presents details of new Multidimensional Poverty Index developed for 104 developing countries. This will be featured in the forthcoming UNDP HDR 2010 & replaces the Human Poverty Index used in these reports since 1997.<br />
Replacing traditional foods with imported, processed food has contributed to the high prevalence of obesity and related health problems in the Pacific islands.
<p>Food security has been a cause of concern for the Indian economy as the physical and economic access to food with adequate calorie content from different sources has been on the wane over time. The per capita net availability of cereals and pulses declined from 510 gms per day in 1991 to 436 gms in 2008 as per data thrown by the Economic Survey, Government of India, 2009-10.</p>