Right to Food Act: essential but inadequate
There is an imbalance between the expansive vision expressed by the draft Act and the narrow means it seeks to achieve it.
There is an imbalance between the expansive vision expressed by the draft Act and the narrow means it seeks to achieve it.
The present prototype global sustainable development report is the result of a collaborative effort of more than two thousand scientists and 50 staff from 20 UN entities from all world regions. The report
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $55 million loan to support small scale water services in Bangladesh to help cut rural poverty, improve community involvement, and address the threat posed by severe floods and other climate change-related events.
Climate change is expected to increase temperatures in Nepal by several degrees by 2060, but a new database set up by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) should help this geographically diverse country better
The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) would connect at least one woman from every poor household across the country with self-help groups (SHGs) in five years, Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. “The objective of the programme is to ensure that in a five-year period one woman from every poor household becomes a member of SHG. Today we have three crore women who are members of SHGs, and we have to raise it to seven crore in five years,” Mr. Ramesh said.
The people of Kashipur and neighbouring regions, situated near the poverty-stricken Koraut-Bolangir-Kalahandi belt, (Orissa) face police repression for battling three alumina projects
New Delhi: The number of hungry people in the world may cross one billion in 2009 due to the shocks of the global economic crisis combined with high food prices in a few countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.
In this report, Christian Aid calls on donors and national governments to increase their support for sustainable small-holder farming to avert rising hunger and poverty caused by climate change. The report
The skyrocketing prices of food expose the aam aadmi pretentions of the government. (Editorial)
The World Bank has approved a $50-million additional credit for an ongoing agricultural project in Assam. The Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project (AACP) aims at increasing the productivity, profitability
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the
A report by the World Bank, entitled 'Ending Poverty and Hunger by 2030: An Agenda for the Global Food System' calls for pre-emptive action from governments across the continent to increase agricultural
Fertility of 17.14 lakh hectares has been improved and more than 65 lakh fruit saplings planted in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Nandan Falodyan Sub-Scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. ''The planting has been undertaken over 23,578 hectares,'' Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava said today on the occasion of the Earth Day.
The on-going campaign for increased production of cassava rests on peasant farmers for its success. One obstacle is the unavailability of credit for farm expansion and the need for farmers to prudently utilize income from the farm firm. The study therefore examines the determinants and uses of income generated from cassava cultivation.
Forget those images of ravaged villagers, kids with distended bellies and ragged clothes and a future as grim as the cracked, sun-baked earth. Islands of poverty still exist but most of rural India is transformed beyond imagination thanks to a host of factors which has put unprecedented wealth into the hands of farmers across the country and turned it into a huge consumer market. Ugale
In this article the author reviews NREGA as it is unfolding in Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh thirty-eight lakh households have registered from employment covering thirteen districts. Of this about a third are yet to receive their job cards.
Bhopal : On one hand MP Audit and Financial Management Software has been evolved for bringing about transparency in Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to ensure timely payment to labourers
During the launch of the 2009 MDG Gap Task Force Report on Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis, UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro highlighted that it is crucial to deliver on global poverty-fighting commitments in a word facing economic recession, food shortage and the continuing impact of climate change, factors that impede the realization of the Mi
It was a seemingly peaceful day in April this year in Kursithana village of Bankhari block in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. Except this time around the cultivation season for Amaan Singh, a farmer, meant the end of a tether.
This paper presents the results of a survey of over 4100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and over 4800 randomly selected users across 100 villages