Climate change impacts, adaptation and links to sustainable development in Africa
Strategies for sustainable development and climate change adaptation have many common elements, so addressing them jointly can create synergies.
Strategies for sustainable development and climate change adaptation have many common elements, so addressing them jointly can create synergies.
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px;">Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift
This paper documents the main findings of a study on food insecurity and vulnerability in the Indian state of Orissa in support of promoting interventions for food security and livelihoods at state level. The paper analyses the main characteristics and causes of food insecurity and vulnerability. It seeks to identify who are vulnerable and food insecure and where they are, why they risk food insecurity and what options exist to reduce their vulnerability. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework and collecting qualitative and quantitative data from four selected districts, the paper looks at six livelihood groups, notably marginal and small scale farming households, labouring rural households, mining worker households, rural artisan households, fishing households and scheduled tribal households.
The Common Guidelines for Watershed Development Projects, brought out by the union government, is an adapted version of the Parthasarathy Committee Report. This article highlights some of the major features of the guidelines and discusses ways to take forward the main concerns that have engaged much of the recent policy discourse on watershed development.
<p>The 2011 Hunger Report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition in developing countries. A dramatic rise in hunger and poverty in the wake of volatile food prices in 2007 and 2008 led to Feed the Future, a bold initiative from the U.S. government.
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is incomplete as it has been framed without considering the schemes impact on agriculture activities in rural areas, Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P Dinakaran said on Sunday.
Rather than ushering in a new age of prosperity, China's entry into the WTO threatens to push the country's farmers deeper into poverty. Since agriculture is the major source of livelihood for
The impact of Karnataka's successful Bhoomi project in alleviating poverty, will be among the major subjects of discussion at the World Bank convened three-day conference in Shanghai, beginning 25
The Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar is one of a series of eight Atlases produced by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The other states covered in this series are: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The Atlases carry out a district-level analysis of food security for each of these states.
BHUBANESWAR: Though Orissa is a pioneer in conferring industrial status to agriculture in 1996, it still lies far behind in fertiliser use. Even after a new agriculture policy in 2008, the fertiliser use lies at 53.2 kg per hectare though it should have been 100 kg per hectare by 2007-
Most of the people suffering from hunger around the world live in rural areas and engage in agricultural activity. It is not just a coincidence that they also often lack basic services, such as energy
Soaring food prices have surfaced as a big concern in the delicately poised agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But because any WTO deal will have an impact only in the long term, the Geneva talks will not offer a solution to the immediate crisis, diplomats and officials say. A doubling of the prices of major cereals on international Markets since mid-2007 has sharply increased the risk of hunger and poverty in developing countries where many people spend the bulk of their household income on food.
<p> To improve offtake of foodgrain allocated to states under the targeted public distribution system (PDS) and other schemes, the food ministry has mooted a proposal to sell wheat and rice to below poverty line (BPL) families at Rs 2 and Rs 3 per kilogram, respectively.</p>
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is UPA's man with the political Midas touch. He needs to lend some of that magic to lift the economy out of its morass. By the Government's own estimate, the economy is
Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This
Tripura Governor D N Sahaya has assured that the newly formed Left Front Government in Tripura would give utmost importance to eradication of poverty and improvement of overall socioeconomic condition
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned Rs 133 crore to the Karnataka government for undertaking various rural infrastructure development projects in the state.
This paper investigates the underlying causes of poor economic growth of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, despite being endowed with relatively rich natural resources. Against the conventional view,
Many governments in low- and middle-income countries see improving rural development as a way to achieve critical national development objectives: economic transformation, eradication of poverty and greater
<p><span id="itro1">According to this global hunger Index 2012 prepared by IFPRI, India lags behind in improving its GHI score despite strong economic growth. It has analyzed the level of hunger in 120